Raül Garrigasait
Writer, translator and Hellenist
With a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona (UB), he has published several essays and works of fiction, including El gos cosmopolita i dos espècimens més (Acontravent, 2011), an essay that is halfway between fiction and philosophical reflection; the novel Els estranys (Edicions de 1984), which received several awards, including the Llibreter Prize; El fugitiu que no se’n va (Edicions de 1984), about Santiago Rusiñol and the onset of modernity; and Els fundadors (Ara Llibres, 2020), about the founders of the Bernat Metge Foundation in the early years of the twentieth century. He has translated works by Plato, Goethe, Alexandros Papadiamandis, Joseph Roth, and Peter Sloterdijk, among other writers, and presently heads La Casa dels Clàssics (House of the Classics), a project initiated by the Bernat Metge Collection with the aim of promoting the creation, thought and dissemination of universal classics in the Catalan language. He has also published the short essay La ira (Fragmenta, 2020), within the series "Pecats capitals" and, recently, the chronicle País Barroc (L’Avenç, 2020).
Update: 19 June 2023