Friends and readers of Vicenç Pagès and Jordà remember the writer on the first anniversary of his death

2023-09-09 13:46:25

The Alibri Bookstore has hosted the tribute to the writer Vicenç Pagès i Jordà on the first anniversary of his death. Pagès died on August 27, 2022 in Torroella de Montgrí. Some of his friends and readers have participated in this memory which has consisted of a reading fragments of his works. Francesc-Marc Álvaro, Joan Burdeus, Joan Carreras, Eva Comas, Eduard Márquez, Joaquim Noguero, Marc Pastor, Eduard Márquez, Adrià Pujol and Enric Sullà were the personalities who attended. In Pagès’ legacy, titles such as ‘The world of Horatio’, ‘Happiness is not complete’ and, above all, ‘The whist players’ stand out.

The meeting served to review the legacy of the writer in Catalan literature, but personal anecdotes from his friends, readers and professional colleagues have also been shared.

The journalist and writer, Francesc-Marc Álvaro, explained that Vicenç Pagès “was one of the authors of the 60s most important” and that “he was a great innovator of our lyrics”. In addition, he considers that “he will be studied as someone who brings a new perspective”. Álvaro has chosen for the occasion a fragment of the work ‘Vintage memory’.

The person in charge of the Alibri Bookstore’s cultural agenda, Sandra Martí, has highlighted that Vicenç Pagès “was a key figure in the world of Catalan letters”. Precisely for this reason justifies the importance behind this one tribute to his memory. “He was a writer who played and researched a lot, touched many branches”, he added.

The writer Eduard Márquez took advantage of his intervention to talk about the most personal aspect of Pagès. Márquez recalled the conversations they had and in which I not only learned a lot by reading him, “but also by conversing with him”. “This is very exceptional among writers and when you’ve lost it, it’s very sad”, he lamented.

National Culture Award

Vicenç Pagès i Jordà was born in Figueres in 1963. He won the Barcelona Biennial 1989 and 1997 published the novel ‘Letter to the Queen of England’. Titles such as ‘The world of Horace’, ‘Happiness is not complete’ and, above all, ‘The whist players’ stand out in his work. Pagès collaborated with the newspapers ‘El Punt Avui’ and ‘El Periódico’, the magazine ‘Presència’ and the digital cultural magazine ‘Núvol’, among others, and worked as a professor at the Ramon Llull University (URL). In 2013 he received the Omnium Cultural Sant Jordi Award for ‘Border Days’ and the Generalitat awarded him the National Culture Award in 2014.