Salvador Oliva i Llinàs explained

Salvador Oliva i Llinàs (1942-12-06, Banyoles, Pla de l'Estany) is a translator, poet, and retired university professor. He received a licentiate in romance philology and a doctorate in Catalan philology from the University of Barcelona. He was a professor at the University of Girona for forty years until, in 2013, he retired as the Chair of Catalan Philology.^[1]

In addition to the complete dramatic and poetic work of William Shakespeare, which he began when creating subtitles for BBC broadcasts,^[2] he has translated into Catalan work by W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Oscar Wilde, R. L. Stevenson, Washington Irving and Jean-Claude Grumberg and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.^[3]

Publications

Essays and books

• Mètrica catalana (1981)
• Introducció a la mètrica (1986, reprinted in 2008 with the title Nova introducció a la mètrica)
• La mètrica i el ritme de la prosa (1992)
• Introducció a Shakespeare (2001)
• Tractat d'elocució (2006)
• Poesia i veritat (2015)
• La rehumanización del arte (2015)
• Epístoles a Josep Carner (2018)

Poetry

• Marees del desig (1975)
• Terres perdudes (1981)
• El somriure del tigre (1986)
• Retalls de sastre (1988)
• Fugitius (1994)
• Complements circumstancials (1998)

External links

• Articles about Salvador Oliva in the newspaper El País
• his personal web page.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Salvador Oliva: "La gent que estimes i l'art són les úniques coses per les quals encara val la pena viure". 2022-05-10. Josep. Pastells. 2013-03-12.
2. Web site: Salvador Oliva. 2022-05-10. Oxford Reference.
3. Web site: An interview with Salvador Oliva: Translating Alice in Wonderland into Catalan. 2022-05-10. Silvia. Mas. Fragmentos. 1999.