Tag: Catalan

Fum d’Estampa Press

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Fum d'Estampa Press

“Our objective is to bring what we think are great stories and literature to the English-speaking world and let the readers decide for themselves.” – Douglas Suttle

Fum d’Estampa Press was founded in 2020 by translator Douglas Suttle to bring exciting, different Catalan language literature to an English speaking audience. Though small, the press quickly established itself as an ambitious publisher of high quality titles. Since then, they have been long- and short-listed for some of the most important literary prizes in the UK and abroad, and have recently started to publish fantastic literature in translation from languages other than Catalan.

Catalan authors include Montserrat Roig, Joan Fuster, Guillem Viladot, Jordi Cussà, Bel Olid, Joaquim Ruyra, Jacint Verdaguer, Laura Alcoba, Maica Rafecas, Jordi Larios, Almudena Sánchez, Adrià Pujol, Oriol Ponsatí-Murlà, Raül Garrigasait, Oriol Quintana, Joan Maragall, Jordi Llavina, Marina Porras, Jordi Graupera, Llorenç Villalonga, Jaume Subirana, Ferran Soldevila, Narcís Oller, and Rosa Maria Arquimbau.

Among the translators are Alan Yates, Ronald Puppo, Louise Johnson and Peter Bush, Tiago Miller, and Mara Faye Lethem.

While its editorial offices are based in Vilafranca del Penedès, south of Barcelona, it prints its books in the south of England, and stores its physical books in Scotland. Ebooks are also available.

Here are a few of their books held by the UC Berkeley Library:

Visit the publisher’s site to view all available titles.

New Catalan literature

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Here’s a selection of Catalan literature titles hot of the press with some not even on the library shelves quite yet. Prizewinners include Maria Barbal, Maite Salord, Anna Gas Serra, Xavier Mas Craviotto, and Laia Viñas. Reviews for all can be read on the open access journal Càracters published by the Universitàt de Valencia.

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librarian icon  And don’t forget to check out the Catalan Studies research guide.

Check out the Romance Language Collections on Instagram

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The Romance Language Collections Instagram feed brings forth little known and new resources and services in the UC Berkeley Library. Once you start following you’ll instantly receive early notices of new books, e-resources, exhibits, readings and more through your smartphone or any web browser.

Collecting from Catalonia

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Books on Catalunya
Despite shrinking budgets, the Library continues to acquire materials in more than 60 languages in support of research and teaching on campus. After Portuguese, Catalan remains one of the most popular less commonly taught European romance languages and has benefited in recent years from the Department of Education’s Title VI funding administered through the Institute of European Studies. This blog post hopes to call attention to a talk of interest in the Berkeley Language Center (BLC) next week and to a few newly acquired books in Catalan or related to Catalonia:

Conjugating Catalonia: Language Learning in Turbulent Times
Greta Vollmer Professor Emerita, English & Applied Linguistics Sonoma State University
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
B4 Dwinelle Hall

The talk is sponsored by the Found in Translation (FIT) Working Group – a growing group of U.C. Berkeley community members interested in language, culture and cross-cultural communication.

15 recently acquired books:

  1. Catalunya i futur. Barcelona: Institut d’Estudis Catalans, 2017.
  2. Dos estados: España y Cataluña: por qué dos estados democráticos, eficientes y colaborativos serán mejor que uno / Ferran Mascarell. Barcelona: Arpa Editores, 2017.
  3. El conflicte social en el teatre català del tombant de segle (1890-1909): identitat de classe, moral social i debat polític /J. Grimalt and T. Martínez. Barcelona: Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, 2016.
  4. Escrits sobre llengua /Josep Murgades. Lleida: Pagès, 2016.
  5. Els verbs conjugats: la conjugació dels més de 8800 verbs inclosos en el DIEC / Joan B. Xuriguera. Barcelona: Claret, 2017.
  6. La rebel-lió catalana: cinc veus sobre el procés i el futur d’Europa / Lluc Salellas Vilar. Lleida: Pagès, 2017.
  7. Jaume Massó i Torrents: la cançó provençal en la literatura catalana cent anys després / Simó Meritxell. Firenze: Edizioni del Galluzzo per la Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, 2012.
  8. Lecciones españolas: siete lecciones políticas de la secesión catalana y la crisis de la España constitucional (2012-2016) / Lluís Bassets. Barcelona: EDLibros, 2017.
  9. Nacionalisme espanyol i catalanitat (1789-1859): cap a una revisió de la renaixença / Joan-Lluís Marfany. Barcelona: Edicions 62, 2017.
  10. Naixement de la mació catalana: orígens i expansió: segles ix-xiv / direcció, Josep M. Salrach i Marès ; autors, Vicent Baydal i Sala [and thirteen others]. Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2017.
  11. El proceso separatista en Cataluña: análisis de un pasado reciente (2006-2017) / Steven Forti, Arnau Gonzàlez i Vilalta, Enric Ucelay-Da Cal (eds.).Granada: Editorial Comares, S.L., 2017.
  12. The Rise of Catalan Independence: Spain’s Territorial Crisis / Andrew Dowling. London: Routledge, 2018.
  13. The Struggle for Catalonia: Rebel Politics in Spain / Raphael Minder. London: Hurst & Company, 2017.
  14. Traducció i franquisme / Montserrat Bacardí and Pilar Godayol.  Lleida: Punctum, 2017.
  15. Uns i altres: literatura i traducció / Joaquim Mallafrè. Reus : Edicions del Centre de Lectura: Tarragona: Arola Editors: Publicacions URV, 2016.

Click here for a longer list of recent library acquisitions from Spain and Portugal.