In the issue 1870, of April 13, of the magazine El Temps, Ramon Pla i Arxé, University professor and literary critic, publishes an article commenting on the book by J. V. Foix published by the Fundació J. V. Foix and Edicions 62 Noms propis. Escriptors i artistes.

Here you can read the article.

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Issue 161 of the Swiss magazine Lichtungen , sponsored by the municipality of Graz, includes translations of poems in verse and prose by J. V. Foix, carried out by the Literature professor Eberhard Geisler.
One of the objectives of this magazine is to present young writers and artists, although they also publish well-known and established authors. Another one is to make panoramic views of international literature. Authors from Eastern Europe, the United States and Cuba have been presented. This is the first time that Catalan literature has been published.

Here you can read the sonnet «Feu, Senyor Déu, el meu treball més dur» and its translation into German.

This Sunday, March 29, Arnau Puig, a referent in 20th century philosophy and art, has died. Arnau Puig was a friend and fan of J. V. Foix, they worked closely. In the fifties of the last century, every year Arnau Puig spent a few days in el Port de la Selva invited by J. V. Foix. He also assisted in the Sunday social gatherings on carrer de Setantí in Barcelona, the poets’s residence.

Here you’ll see a photograph where Arnau Puig is with Foix in Port de la Selva.

The 2020 PEN America Literary Awards were conferred in New York in February. Lawrence Venuti, who translated Primers fragments del Diari, by J. V. Foix, was named finalist, so he couldn’t read the whata he had prepared if his translation had been chosen. But, even though, we have the opportunity to read it.

If you want to read it, it is published in Los Angeles Review of Books.

On March the 21th was proclamed the World Poetry Day in 1999 by the General Conference of UNESCO. The Institució de les Lletres Catalanes promotes this celebration in the Catalan lands with the organization of different actions with the aim of spreading the poetic fact.

This year the J. V. Foix’s poem is «Si de noiet delia l’hora malva…».

The presentation of the book Noms propis. Escriptors i artistes, by J. V. Foix will take place in the Ateneu Barcelonès. The book has been published by the Fundació J. V. Foix in collaboration with Edicions 62, and appeared at the end of 2019 and that since the beginning of 2020 is already in bookstores. We will have the presence of Jordi Cornudella and Perejaume.

Day and time: March 11 at 7 p.m.
Place: Ateneu Barcelonès, Canuda, 6 Barcelona

Within the program «Dilluns de Poesia» held at the Arts Santa Monica, on February 24 at 7 p.m., Lawrence Venuti, translation theorist and translator, among others, of J. V. Foix, whose Daybook. Early fragments has just published the Northwestern University Press, will talk with the poet Francesc Parcerisas.