1893
Born in Sarrià (Barcelona), on the 28th of January.

1901
Attends the municipal school run by D. Salvador Mundi, master of the came, where he creates the newspaper Lo Català along with Josep Obiols.

1905-1907
Writes in a En Patufet, where he tends to use a pseudonym.

1911
He begins his oeuvre in the guise of a diary in notebooks with black oilcloth covers. He enters the university in the Faculty of Law. His zeal for reading the classics, along with a spiritual crisis and a crisis in orientation influence his decision to quit school in his second year. He works in a typographic letter foundry purchased by his father.

1916
He forges his first contact with the French and Italian avant-garde movements.

1917
Thanks to his friendship with Joaquim Folguera, he starts contributing to La Revista, edited by Josep M. López Picó. He meets Joan Miró, with whom he would forge a close friendship.

1918
He starts his visits to Sitges, where he meets Josep Carbonell i Gener. He edits the last editions of the avant-garde magazine Trossos. Before him it had been edited by Josep M. Junoy.

1919-1920
He is part of the editorial staff of La Cònsola a magazin from Sarrià where several of his contributions appear, although not always under his own name. Thanks to his mediation, the magazine publishes contributions from other poets, including Riba, Carner and Ventura Gassol.

1920
He publishes “El poema de Catalunya” in La Cònsola. This is one of the few visual poems he left.

1921
He serves as editor-in-chief of the magazine Monitor along with Josep Carbonell i Gener.

1922
He is a member of the group that founds Acció Catalana, and he writes the first few editions of the newsletter.
He begins to contribute to the newspaper La Publicitat, where he would write until 1936.

1923
He opens the Foix confectionary in Plaza de Sarrià.

1924
He starts his stays in Port de la Selva, where Alexandre Plana, Josep M. de Sagarra and other writers were already going.

1925
He meets Salvador Dalí.
He contributes to Revista de Poesia.

1926
He joins the editorial staff of L’Amic de les Arts from Sitges.
Presentation of the Salvador Dalí exhibition in Galeries Dalmau on Barcelona’s Passeig de Gràcia.

1927
Publication of his first book of poems in prose, Gertrudis, which Joan Miró illustrates with an original drawing.

1931
He marries Victòria Gili i Serra. The couple separates in 1948.

1932
KRTU, his second book, appears. He takes part in founding the group ADLAN (Amics de l’Art Nou).

1933
Catalan delegate to the PEN CLUB Congress which is held in Dubrovnik (Yugoslavia).

1934
Along with Josep Carbonell he publishes Revolució Catalanista, a series of articles that express both authors’ political ideas. He serves as the editor-in-chief in the third stage of the Revista de Catalunya.
Becomes the editor of the literary page of La Publicitat. He alternates signing articles using his real name and Fòcius and other pseudonyms.

1935
Along with Carles Riba, Tomàs Garcés, Marià Manent and Joan Teixidor he founds the magazine Quaderns de Poesia.

1944
He contributes to Poesia, the magazine edited by Josep Palau i Fabre.

1946
He contributes to the magazine Ariel.
Presentation at the Centre Excursionista “Els Blaus de Sarrià” of the exhibition on Joan Ponç, Tort, Puig and Boadella.

1947
With the date of 1936, he publishes the book of sonnets Sol, i de dol, which over the years will become paradigmatic.

1948
Contributes to the magazine published by the group Dau al Set of the same name.
1949
J.V. Foix’s most cryptic book Les irreals omegues, appears. The majority of the poems refer to the Civil War and the post-war period.

1952
He attends the Poetry Congress of Segovia with other Catalan poets. Embarks on a friendship with Vicente Aleixandre.

1953
He participates in the Poetry Congress of Salamanca. Publishes a new book of poems: On he deixat les claus.

1956
He publishes some of the poems started in 1911 under the title Del Diari de 1918, with a prologue by Josep Romeu Figueras.

1959
Poetry Congress of Formentor.

1960
In the book Onze Nadals i un Cap d’Any he compiles the Christmas poems that he sent to his friends.

1961
He is named member of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Philology Section.
He receives the Lletra d’Or or the publication of this book. He contributes anonymously to the magazine Serra d’Or.

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