An important and popular writer in Catalan during the 20^th century was Miquel Martí i Pol. Miquel Martí i Pol was born in the 19^th March 1929 and died the 11^th November 2003 in Roda de Ter. He was a poet, a writer and translator.

Miquel Martí i Pol was from a humble family, so at the age of 14 he had to begin to work in a factory, after having studied the primary education.

At the age of 19 he suffered pulmonary tuberculosis and he could not work for a long time. During that period he took advantage of the situation reading and writing.

In 1954 he published her first book of poetry, Paraules al vent, and he won the prize Premi Ossa Menor.

In 1956 he married and had to sons. During Francisco Franco’s dictatorship he participated in Catalan cultural activities and he collaborated with PSUC [The PSUC was the largest opposition party in Catalonia and upon the fall of the regime it became a mass party].

The year 1979 he was diagnosed as having Multiple Sclerosis and at 1973 he had to leave the factory. However he continued writing. In the year 1977 he won Premi Lletra d’Or and in 1979 he won Premi de la Crítica de poesia catalana. He won this Prize two more times: I 1991 and in 1994.

He also stood up as a translator into Catalan from writers like Aintoine de Saint-Exupéry, Georges Arnaud, Simone de Beauvoir, Claude Lévi-Stauss, Guillaume Apollinaire, Gustave Flaubert, Émile Zola, Jean Racine, Joris-Karl Huysmansi and Roland Barthes.

He died the 11^th November 2003 and at that moment he was the most read and known poet in live. Many famous people went to his burial like Catalan politicians or Pep Guardiola, the current Barça’s coach, who was a close friend of the poet.

My favourite place at home is my room. It is quite big and it has a large window. The walls are painted on dark brown, light brown and yellow. I have a wardrobe, my bed and my desk. The room is sorted and the bed is almost always done.

In my room I sleep, do the homework and I have my computer. I like it very much because it is very comfortable to sleep on my bed

I am not very interested in painting, so I do not have a favourite painter. However I like the way some painters do. One famous Catalan painter I like is Joan Miró.
Joan Miró i Ferrà was born the 20th April 1893 in Barcelona and died the 25th December 1983 in Palma de Malloca. He was a painter, a sculptor, ceramist and engraver. He is considerate one of the exponents of the surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and famously declared an “assassination of painting” in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.