Narcís Oller
Narcís Oller i Moragas (Catalan pronunciation: [nəɾˈsiz uˈʎe]; 10 August 1846, in Valls – 26 July 1930, in Barcelona) was a Catalan writer, most noted for the novels La papallona (The Butterfly) which appeared with a foreword by Émile Zola in the French translation; his most well-known work L'Escanyapobres (The Usurer); and La febre d'or (Gold Fever) which is set in Barcelona during the period of promoterism. He also translated the works of Tolstoy and Dumas.
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Born | Valls, Spain | 10 August 1846
Died | 26 July 1930 83) Barcelona, Spain | (aged
Occupation | Novelist |
Literary movement | Renaixença, Realism, Romanticism |
External links
Media related to Narcís Oller at Wikimedia Commons
- Narcís Oller at the Association of Catalan Language Writers. (in English, Spanish, and Catalan)
- Narcís Oller in LletrA, Catalan Literature Online (Open University of Catalonia) (in English, Spanish, and Catalan)
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