1. Caterina Albert i Paradis, better known by her pen name Victor Catala, was a Catalan writer in Catalan and Spanish who participated in the Modernisme movement and was the author of one of the signature works of the genre, Solitud.
10 Facts About Caterina Albert
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Caterina Albert died in her hometown of l'Escala, Catalonia, in 1966 and is interred in the Cementiri Vell de l'Escala.
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Caterina Albert began her literary career very young, collaborating with l'Almanach de L'Esquella de la Torratxa.
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Caterina Albert's first published book was the collection of poems Lo cant dels mesos.
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Caterina Albert had other vocations as well: she was a drawer, a painter and a sculptor.
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Caterina Albert published several less dramatic narratives, as well as a few poems, in the magazine La Ilustracio Catalana.
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Caterina Albert was a member of the Academy of the Catalan Language and the Academy of Great Letters of Barcelona.
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Caterina Albert won her second Englantina d'or of the Jocs Florals de Barcelona with her poem Cavalls del port.
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Caterina Albert was an active folklorist and even archaeologist, collecting and classifying Greek and Roman remnants.
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Caterina Albert fell into her second literary silence with the commencement of hostilities in the Spanish Civil War.