The Swiss house Teamart has published the German translation of a prose selection from J. V. Foix‘s Diari 1918. This new translation has been carried out by Eberhard Geisler, a Professor of Ibero-Romance Literatures at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz, who translated KRTU into German in 1988.

On Friday the 18th April, the Port de la Selva Town Council will offer the J. V. Foix literary tour. The tour covers several locations in the town that were portrayed in many of the poet’s works.

Meeting point: At the Library at 12 a.m.

You have to make a telephone reservation at the Tourist Office o calling the 972 387 122.

Saturday the 12nd April, the Born Centre Cultural presents «Un tast de Foix» based in J. V. Foix’s texts. The actress Gemma Reguant recites the poems accompanied by the pianist Anna Alemany who will interpret compositions by Mompou, Monsalvatge i Mestres Quadreny.
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Place: El Born Centre Cultural. Sala Moragues. Plaça Comercial, 12. 08003 Barcelona
Day and hour: April 12 th at 9 pm
Ticket price: 5 €

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In this week’s issue of Time Out magazine (Barcelona Edition), there is an article by Enrique Vila-Matas entitled «Literatura de Barcelona», where he enumerates the writers whose work talks of the city and which he considers the most important ones (Sagarra, Marsé, Mendoza, Pàmies, etc.), and ends the article saying:

«… the poetry of the great J. V. Foix, who I spied on in his pastisserie of the Barcelona district of Sarrià: he was always behind the counter, close to the cash register. He wrote a prose poem “Anava dreta i sola dalt de l’autobús” (“She was standing alone right in the middle of the bus”) which led me directly to literature when I was fifteen; I decided I would be a writer after reading this poem about this bus of Barcelona that right now I couldn’t say where could be found.»

Anava sola i dreta dalt l’autobús

The Catalan Poetry Day in Internet is on 17 March. With this poem by J. V. Foix we want to promote the reading, writing, publishing and teaching of poetry throughout and to “give fresh recognition and impetus to national, regional and international poetry movements”.

Em plau d’atzar… de J. V. Foix.

La Pàtria és…

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On 18th February a literary tour took place in the Sarrià of J.V. Foix. At 10:30 am, 41 secondary-school students and their teacher Marta Prunés from INS Serrat i Bonastre in Barcelona began the tour from outside Sant Vicenç church.

They were accompanied by Marta Prunés, teacher of Catalan Language and Literature, and by Gemma Reguant, who acted as tour guide and read extracts from the works of J.V. Foix.
 

The new premises for Jordi Aligué’s and Anna Bellvehí studio were opened in Cardedeu on February the 15th. The space will be devoted to the arts and the culture and has been named «L’estació és allà…» as an hommage to the poet J. V. Foix and as a reference to the prose poem «L’estació».
As well as offering paintig, drawing and engraving workshops the studio will also organize contemporary art exhibitions and poetry events.

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Dins dels tallers de màster «Estudis Superiors de Llengua i Literatura Catalanes», el dia 13 de febrer, Aleix Cort, escriptor, impartirà el taller titulat «J. V. Foix i el ball: màgia, poesia, elegància i erotisme» a l’aula Vidal i Alcover de la Universitat Rovira i Virgili, a Tarragona.

Day: February 13th at 16 pm
Site: Aula Vidal Alcover. URV. Tarragona

The poetry-reading series «4 x 2: poetes llegeixen poetes» will open at the Biblioteca Vapor Badia in Sabadell, on February 11th. This series of events is organised by Papers de Versàlia, and includes 8 sixty-minute sessions where each poet will comment his or her own work and some other poet’s work.

Days: February 11th and 25th at 7:00 pm
Reading: Josep M Ripoll / J. V. Foix
Site: Biblioteca Vapor Badia. Carrer de les Tres Creus, 127

These events are free of charge, but those who are interested in attending them should enrol to a minimun of two monthly sessions.

Literary critic Xavier Pla, the author of the foreword to Un traficant d’idees a les fronteres de l’art, quoted two authors during the presentation of the book, which took place at the Ateneu Barcelonès. The first is Eugeni d’Ors, Xènius; the second is J. V. Foix, Focius:

«Al nostre entendre, un diari, com un poema, s’ha de redactar, compaginar, imprimir pensant en els nostres successors d’ací a dos segles. […] D’ací a cent anys, d’ací a dos-cents anys, serem judicats pels nostres diaris! Cada número nou del diari hauria d’ésser considerat com un llegat que fem a l’eternitat.» (La Publicitat, 31.III.1932).

To see the whole video of the event click here.