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The birth of Josep Pla

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The birth of Josep Pla

Historical milestone · Palafrugell, Baix Empordà, Girona

On 8 March 1897 Josep Pla i Casadevall was born in Palafrugell, a writer and journalist in Catalan and Spanish who turned the Empordanet into literary material. His body of work, spanning six uninterrupted decades and totaling more than thirty thousand pages gathered in thirty-eight volumes of complete works, was essential to the modernization of the Catalan language and to spreading knowledge of local customs and traditions. His opinion pieces, journalistic chronicles and social reports from numerous countries, written as a correspondent across much of Europe, also stand as a unique testimony to twentieth-century history, which has established him as the most important prose writer of contemporary Catalan literature. He died at the mas de Llofriu on 23 April 1981.

8 de marzo de 1897

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