author
Pompeu Crehuet i Pardas
1881–1941
A Catalan playwright and journalist of the early 20th century, remembered above all for La morta and for a literary career that moved between modernist drama, fiction, and cultural journalism.
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La morta : Quadro dramátich
by Pompeu Crehuet i Pardas
About the author
Born in Barcelona in 1881, he studied law and social sciences at the University of Barcelona, but literature became a central part of his life. Reliable reference sources describe him as a playwright, journalist, and fiction writer who also worked in public administration, first with the Mancomunitat de Catalunya and later with the Barcelona Provincial Government.
His best-known work is La morta (1904), often noted as the most significant of his plays. He also wrote other dramatic works, made an excursion into lyric theater with El mestre, and from 1907 to 1913 directed the cultural magazine De tots colors.
He died in 1941 in Sant Feliu de Guíxols. Today he is mainly remembered as part of the Catalan literary and theatrical world of the early 1900s, especially for drama shaped by the modernist currents of his time.