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2 unusual facts about Lluís-Anton Baulenas


Lluís-Anton Baulenas

In 2005 Baulenas won the most prestigious award in Catalan letters, the Ramon Llull prize, for his novel Per un sac d’ossos (For a Sack of Bones), dealing with the Spanish civil war.

Ventura Pons

Since 1995 he has chosen to adapt dramatic and comic texts of Catalan writers like Quim Monzó (What It's All About), Josep Maria Benet i Jornet (Actresses, Amic/Amat), Sergi Belbel (Caresses, To Die (or not)), Lluís-Anton Baulenas (Anita Takes a Chance, Idiot Love), Jordi Puntí (Wounded animals), Ferran Torrent (Life on the edge) and Lluïsa Cunillé (Barcelona (a map)).


Carrer de Lluís Companys, Lleida

Carrer de Lluís Companys is a partly pedestrianised street in the Instituts-Templers district of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain).

Fortunio Bonanova

Fortunio Bonanova is the pseudonym of Josep Lluís Moll (Palma de Mallorca, January 13, 1895 – Woodland, California, April 2, 1969), who was a baritone singer and a film, theater, and television actor.

Josep Lluís Sert

Josep Lluis Sert counted amongst his close friends the likes of Alexander Calder, Joan Miró, Georges Braque, Mirko Basaldella, and Marc Chagall for who he designed studios and houses.

Przemysław Gintrowski

The title song of the programme, “Mury”, based on the song written by Catalan bard Lluis Llach L'Estaca - has become an informal anthem of "Solidarity" and the symbol of the fight against the regime.


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