Salvador Oliva i Llinàs (1942-12-06, Banyoles, Pla de l'Estany) is a translator, poet, and retired university professor. He received a licentiate in romance philology and a doctorate in Catalan philology from the University of Barcelona. He was a professor at the University of Girona for forty years until, in 2013, he retired as the Chair of Catalan Philology.[1]

In addition to the complete dramatic and poetic work of William Shakespeare, which he began when creating subtitles for BBC broadcasts,[2] he has translated into Catalan work by W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Oscar Wilde, R. L. Stevenson, Washington Irving and Jean-Claude Grumberg and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.[3]

Publications

Essays and books

  • Mètrica catalana (1981)
  • Introducció a la mètrica (1986, reprinted in 2008 with the title Nova introducció a la mètrica)
  • La mètrica i el ritme de la prosa (1992)
  • Introducció a Shakespeare (2001)
  • Tractat d'elocució (2006)
  • Poesia i veritat (2015)
  • La rehumanización del arte (2015)
  • Epístoles a Josep Carner (2018)

Poetry

  • Marees del desig (1975)
  • Terres perdudes (1981)
  • El somriure del tigre (1986)
  • Retalls de sastre (1988)
  • Fugitius (1994)
  • Complements circumstancials (1998)

References

  1. ↑ Pastells, Josep (2013-03-12). "Salvador Oliva: "La gent que estimes i l'art són les úniques coses per les quals encara val la pena viure"". Retrieved 2022-05-10.
  2. ↑ "Salvador Oliva". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
  3. ↑ Mas, Silvia (1999). "An interview with Salvador Oliva: Translating Alice in Wonderland into Catalan". Fragmentos. Retrieved 2022-05-10.
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