author
Eduard Coca i Vallmajor
1872–1908
A lively early 20th-century Catalan writer, he turned everyday work and city life into fiction, theater, and sharp humor. His best-known book, Aucells de gàbia, drew on his own time as a railway employee in Barcelona.
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Gent d'ara : Comedia en dos actes
by Eduard Coca i Vallmajor
About the author
Born in Barcelona in 1872 and dying there in 1908, Eduard Coca i Vallmajor was a Catalan writer whose career moved across several kinds of work before settling into literature. Reference sources describe him as having worked in varied jobs, including on the railways, and that practical experience later fed directly into his writing.
He is best known for Aucells de gàbia (1904), a novel or memoir-like work inspired by his own experiences as a railway employee. He also wrote for the stage, including Gent d’ara and the monologue Casat!, and is noted for a parody based on Sherlock Holmes.
Coca i Vallmajor was also a regular contributor to the satirical Catalan weekly Cu-cut!, where he published under the pseudonym KOK or K.O.K. That mix of observation, humor, and interest in ordinary social life gives his work an immediacy that still feels approachable today.