BERNAT NADAL WRITER OF THE MONTH

The Mallorcan poet-writer and essayist Bernat Nadal is the writer of the month for April at the Can Ventosa Municipal Library, in Ibiza, at 50 anniversary of the publication of his first collection of poems, The disintegration of desire.

Bernat Nadal Nicolau (Manacor, 1950) he began in poetry with the encouragement of two great Majorcan poets who were friends and disciples: Miquel Àngel Riera, also from Manacor, who will also be Writer of the Month next July on the 25 years of his death and the Santanyí Blai Bonet, who was Writer of the Month in December 2011.

He has always lived in his city, where he stood out as a cultural activist. He has collaborated in the press of Mallorca; He was a correspondent for the Diario de Baleares publishing his chronicles on the Catalan language and has collaborated multiple times in the Manacor press. He has also translated several collections of poems into Portuguese.. de hecho, the best catalan translators of literature in the portuguese language are writers from the island.

Poetry is the reference of our Writer of the Month. en 1971 made himself known with the poems The disintegration of the desig. en 1972 Public Thirteen poems and that same year he won the City of Manacor Award with You chose the unfair way to freely represent the role of comedy. Other works of his are Fossil memory (2005) y The red dress (2008). con The meat that crunch (2009) won the Mallorca Poetry Prize. Of narrative and essay are his works Petrus (1979), Nunsi: dance as art (2001), Reason Blaugrana, Barça as a philosophy (2008), a book about soccer that can be placed between essay and irony; y The cold part of the bed (2012).

Camille, so far his last book of poems, constitutes a poetic homage to the French sculptress Camille Claudel, a woman who suffered for her dual status as a woman and an artist at the end of the 19th century and consists of two parts: “Cant de Camille” and “Cartes a Camille”. Both understand the lament of the artist who stood out early for her talent and who, Nevertheless, she was only known for her relationship with the men who passed through her life: his brother, French writer and diplomat, Paul Claudel, and Auguste Rodin, the great sculptor. Camille, which includes an epilogue by Laura Borràs. Based on this work, the company La Fornal made in Manacor theatrical representations of its show Camille Claudel.

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