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Catalan literature (or Valencian literature) is the name conventionally used to refer to literature written in the Catalan language. The focus of this article is not just the literature of Catalonia, but literature written in Catalan from anywhere, so that it includes writers from Andorra, the Valencian Community, Balearic Islands and other territories where any Catalan variant is spoken.

The Catalan literary tradition is extensive, starting in the early Middle Ages. A Romantic revivalist movement of the 19th century, Renaixença, classified Catalan literature in periods. The centuries long chapter known as Decadència that followed the golden age of Valencian literature, was perceived as extremely poor and lacking literary works of quality. Further attempts to explain why this happened (see History of Catalonia) have motivated new critical studies of the period, and nowadays a revalorisation of this early modern age is taking place. Catalan literature reemerged in the 19th and early 20th centuries, to experience troubled times from the start of the Spanish Civil War on. Many intellectuals were forced into exile and Catalan culture was repressed. However, this repression began to temper after the end of World War II. Catalan was repressed until Francisco Franco's death and the end of his dictatorship in 1975. Then, a development towards officiality and presence in schools and media started to this day.

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Catalan literature

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Catalan literature (or Valencian literature) is the name conventionally used to refer to literature written in the Catalan language. The focus of this...

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Catalan language

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Catalan (/ˈkætələn, -æn/ KAT-ə-lən, -⁠lan or /ˌkætəˈlæn/ KAT-ə-LAN; autonym: català, Eastern Catalan: [kətəˈla]), known in the Valencian Community and...

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Catalan Countries

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The Catalan Countries (Catalan: Països Catalans, Eastern Calatan: [pəˈizus kətəˈlans]) are those territories where the Catalan language is spoken. They...

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Catalans

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Catalans (Catalan, French and Occitan: catalans; Spanish: catalanes, Italian: catalani, Sardinian: cadelanos) are a Romance ethnic group native to Catalonia...

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Spanish literature

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particularly Catalan literature, Galician intersects as well with Latin, Jewish, and Arabic literary traditions of the Iberian peninsula. The literature of Spanish...

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Occitan literature

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survives to this day. Although Catalan is considered by some a variety of Occitan, this article will not deal with Catalan literature, which started diverging...

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Literature of Andorra

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The literature of Andorra is part of Catalan literature, that is, of literature in the Catalan language. It is the literature represented by the writings...

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Medieval literature

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literature Medieval Catalan literature Medieval Croatian literature Old and Middle Dutch literature Old English literature Middle English literature Early...

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Modernisme

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historiographic denomination given to an art and literature movement associated with the search of a new entitlement of Catalan culture, one of the most predominant...

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List of European literatures

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Western literature Medieval literature Renaissance literature Old English literature British literature Welsh literature in English Scottish literature Irish...

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Literature by country

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list of literature pages categorized by country, language, or cultural group. Sometimes these literatures will be called national literatures because...

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Outline of literature

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Catalonia

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of Aragon, suppressed Catalan institutions and legislation. As a consequence, Catalan as a language of government and literature was eclipsed by Spanish...

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Tirant lo Blanch

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Historiques (in French). 16: 1–14. doi:10.4000/ccrh.2652. Among the Catalan literature of the late Middle Ages, the chivalric romance entitled Tirant lo...

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Frankfurt Book Fair

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many Catalans who write in Spanish in its definition of Catalan literature. The decision to exclude any element of "Spanishness", defined as literature exclusively...

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Blanquerna

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written in Catalan between 1283 and 1285 by Ramon Llull. It chronicles the life of its eponymous hero. It is the first major work of literature written in...

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Jacint Verdaguer

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1902) was a Catalan writer, regarded as one of the greatest poets of Catalan literature and a prominent literary figure of the Renaixença, a cultural revival...

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Esplugues de Llobregat

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Maldà, author of Calaix de Sastre, the most representative work of Catalan literature of the late 18th century.[citation needed] Esplugues holds a remarkable...

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Crown of Aragon

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Crown of Aragon. Archive of the Crown of Aragon, pl. del Rei, Barcelona. Catalan literature in Crown of Aragon...

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14th century in literature

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1328 Ramon Muntaner - Chronicle (Crònica), the longest of The Four Great Catalan Chronicles c. 1329–32 Yoshida Kenkō (吉田 兼好) – Tsurezuregusa (Essays in...

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Speculum al foderi

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Speculum al foder is a 15th-century Catalan anonim text discovered in the 1970s. This text is significant as it is a rare example of known Medieval treatise...

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The Time of the Doves

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regarded as one of the most important pieces of fiction in contemporary Catalan literature. It is also a staple of the curriculum in secondary school programs...

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Catalan Atlas

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The Catalan Atlas (Catalan: Atles català, Eastern Catalan: [ˈatləs kətəˈla]) is a medieval world map, or mappa mundi, probably created in the late 1370s...

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James I of Aragon

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was an important figure in the development of the Catalan language, sponsoring Catalan literature and writing a quasi-autobiographical chronicle of his...

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Floral Games

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to Catalan poetry. Several different positions soon became apparent with respect to the models to be used for the creation of a Catalan literature. Marià...

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Catalan cuisine

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Catalan cuisine is the cuisine from Catalonia. It may also refer to the shared cuisine of Northern Catalonia and Andorra, the second of which has a similar...

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Postcolonial literature

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