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Conrad Roure
1841–1928
A lively voice from Barcelona’s literary world, this playwright and journalist moved through bohemian circles, wrote for the stage, and later turned his long life into vivid memoirs. His work offers a close-up view of Catalan cultural life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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About the author
Born in Barcelona in 1841, Conrad Roure i Bofill became known as a dramatist and journalist closely tied to the city’s cultural life. Sources describe him as part of the bohemian and iconoclastic atmosphere of his youth, and as a friend and collaborator of writers including Frederic Soler, known as Pitarra, and Eduard Vidal i Valenciano.
He trained in law, but his reputation came from literature and the press rather than the courtroom. He wrote plays and contributed journalistic pieces, and he is especially remembered for the memoir series Recuerdos de mi larga vida, drawn from articles first published in El Diluvio.
Roure died in Barcelona in 1928. Today he is remembered as a sharp, observant witness to his era whose writing helps preserve the everyday energy of a changing Catalan city.