One Day of Life is Life
Joan Maragall, Translated by Ronald Puppo
Fum d'Estampa Press, 2020
Winner of the 2021 Ramon Llull Prize for Literary Translation
This bilingual collection of both Maragall’s poetry and prose has been edited and translated by Ronald Puppo, a research fellow and translator at the University of Vic. His keen eye and expertise on Maragall comes across in droves as he takes what are arguably Catalan literature’s finest moments and turns them into eminently readable and enjoyable English language poems. Also included in this collection are some of Maragall’s pieces of prose work and personal letters that shed light onto the man himself. Accompanying all this are Puppo’s own in-depth comments and insights.
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