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Hobby Forum Index » Arts - Books - Childrens » Happy 85th, Josep Vallverdú! (Catalan novelist, "El ...
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Born in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. Also a poet, playwright, translator
and essayist, he was nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award
in 1988.
Among his translations are "Island of the Blue Dolphins" and "Treasure
Island."
http://www.vallverdu.org/
(in Catalan - if you know Spanish, you should be able to read it)
http://ddd.uab.es/pub/quaderns/11385790n8p121.pdf
(long interview in Catalan)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josep_Vallverd%C3%BA
(includes partial booklist)
http://www.ctts.dcu.ie/JosepValverduTRASNABIO.html
(long bibliography, nicely arranged)
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=josep%20vallverdu%20&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
(photos & a few covers)
Description of "Los amigos del viento"(1979):
"A translation of 'Els amics del vent.' When their father is captured
by Napoleon's soldiers, two Catalan children join a former Frenchwoman
in an escape by balloon."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1984277/filmoseries
(short TV resume)
http://www.escriptors.cat/autors/vallverduj/pagina.php?id_sec=2428
Excerpt:
"He also translated works by Chesterton, T. Elliot, Graham Greene,
Jean Piaget, Jack London, Martin Luther King, Stevenson and Oscar
Wilde, among others. Some of his work has been translated into
Spanish, Basque, French, Italian and Russian. He was honored with the
Creu de Sant Jordi de la Generalitat de Catalunya (1990) and with the
Premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes (2000)."
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