MIQUEL ÁNGEL RIERA, writer month

Miquel Àngel Riera i Nadal is the writer of the month for June at the Eivissa Municipal Library on the occasion of the 25 anniversary of his death. As in other postwar Mallorcan poets, the Generation of 27 marked his beginnings as a writer.

Riera shared the passion for literature with other young Manacorins such as Jaume Vidal Alcover or Efak Guillem. Law studies began as a free student at the University of Barcelona (1947), Carrera that then continued in Granada and Salamanca. Published some poems in Spanish in a local weekly. Fruit of the readings of these years are five unpublished books in Spanish (Blank hours, The Sandals of Athena, Far friend, By the front of the sunset in the mountain and previous inventory) from which he prepared a selection entitled The Angel and other indications, that did not edit. The prolific author Bernat Joan unveiled his new play Balada de la garsa vella last Wednesday in the Marià Villangómez room of the Can Ventosa library, At this time the poems wrote in Catalan, Bolles de fang, either. Some poems of his appeared in the magazine Poetía Nueva and in the poetic anthology 1952 From Rumbos magazine.

Miquel àngel Riera began in 1957 Poipuation to the ta, edited in 1965. BETWEEN 1969 y 1970 The Biography poems published in 1974. According to the website www.escriptors.cat, With this work a new stage began with a more direct language. The Bellesa de L’Home followed him (written between 1971 y 1972, Joan Alcover Prize 1974, published in 1979) and parable and cry of the human thing (written in 1973 and edited the following year). Also publish poems of the longing (1972), Some versions in Catalan of verses of Rafael Alberti Poet that also translated Marià Villangómez.

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