Tomàs Garcés i Miravet (; 9 October 1901 – 16 November 1993,

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) was a Catalan poet and lawyer. Garcés was born in Barcelona. He studied law, philosophy, and literature at the

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. At the time of the

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Garcés fled to

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where he was a teacher of

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in the

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. He returned to Catalonia in 1947. Tomas was called "The Catalan poet of song" for his short regular verses. He worked in several literary publications: ''Mar Vella'', which he founded, and also ''Ariel'', ''Serra d'Or'', ''Revista de Catalunya'' and also ''La Publicitat'', in which he published his works under the

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"Ship-Boy". For his works he was awarded several prizes, including The City of Barcelona Award, The Generalitat de Catalunya award, Crítica Serra d'Or,

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and Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes.

External links

Tomàs Garcés at the AELC
(Association of Writers in Catalan Language), in Catalan, English and Spanish.

1901 births 1993 deaths Catalan-language poets Poets from Catalonia Lawyers from Barcelona Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes winners 20th-century Spanish poets 20th-century male writers {{Spain-law-bio-stub