{"id":482,"date":"2013-01-10T17:04:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T17:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/getcc\/josep-pedreira-collection\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T08:58:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T08:58:38","slug":"josep-pedreira-collection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/getcc\/en\/josep-pedreira-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Josep Pedreira Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:37% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"289\" src=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/getcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2016\/10\/pedreira.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-400 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/getcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2016\/10\/pedreira.jpg 360w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/getcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2016\/10\/pedreira-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Josep Pedreira i Fern\u00e1ndez (Barcelona, 1917-2003) was born in a galician family established in the Sants neighbourhood in Barcelona. He studied trade and literature, and fought for the Republican Forces during the Spanish Civil War. In post-war years, he joined the Catalan National Front, worked with editor Josep Jan\u00e9s and in 1949 he created the collection \u201cEls Llibres de l\u2019\u00d3ssa Menor\u201d, dedicated to Catalan poetry and in which renowned authors such as Salvador Espriu, Miquel Mart\u00ed i Pol, Joan Oliver, Carles Riba or Joan Vinyol\u00ed were published. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Pedreira was the director of this collection until 1966, when it became part of the catalogue of the publishing company Edicions Proa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prize Premi \u00d3ssa Menor was created in 1950 as a complement to the collection. The prize changed its name to Premi Carles Riba in 1959, the same year in which Pedreira created the collection &#8220;Les Quatre Estacions&#8221;, dedicated to poetry and essays. Works by Gabriel Ferrater, Mari\u00e0 Manent, Josep Palau i Fabre or Francesc Parcerisas were published within this collection. From 1981 until 1983, Pedreira was librarian at the Ateneu Barcelon\u00e8s. In 1985 he was awarded the prestigious prize Creu de Sant Jordi de la Generalitat de Catalunya for his commitment to promote Catalan poetry in post-war years. He was later awarded the prize Premi Jaume I d\u2019Actuaci\u00f3 C\u00edvica Catalana. In 1985, he published a compilation of poems named <em>El llibre dels verns<\/em> and in 2003 he published the book <em>Soldats catalans a la Roja i Negra (1936-1939)<\/em> with memoirs about his experience at war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LEGACY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding his personal documents, the most remarkable ones are manuscripts and typed documents of his own works: narrative compilations (unpublished <em>M\u00fasica per a Bela Bart\u00f3k<\/em>), poetry (a part from the book <em>El llibre dels verns<\/em>, published in 1985), diaries and memoirs (a part from <em>Soldats catalans a la Roja i Negra (1936-1939)<\/em>, published in 2003). All these documents have been preserved in their various progress stages, some of them are drafts while others are almost finished. Worth mentioning are two almost completed books with personal memoirs: <em>Els set colors de l\u2019arc<\/em> and <em>Llibre dels invents<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bib.uab.cat\/human\/fonspersonals\/pedreira\/personal.php?num=1.3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josep Pedreira&#8217;s collection<\/a> is&nbsp;kept in the library Biblioteca d\u2019Humanitats of the Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mireia Sopena pubished this volume after consulting the collection:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:36% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"235\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/getcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2016\/10\/pedreira_sopena.jpg\" alt=\"pedreira_sopena\" class=\"wp-image-983 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/getcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2016\/10\/pedreira_sopena.jpg 235w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/getcc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2016\/10\/pedreira_sopena-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n\n<p><strong>Mireia Sopena<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grup62.cat\/llibre-josep-pedreira-un-editor-en-terra-de-naufragis\/93847\">Josep Pedreira, un editor en terra de naufragis<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.proa.cat\/ca\/llibre\/josep-pedreira-un-editor-en-terra-de-naufragis_16952.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Els Llibres de l&#8217;\u00d3ssa Menor, 1949-1963<\/em><\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Premi Carles Rahola d&#8217;assaig 2011<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Editorial Proa<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Col\u00b7lecci\u00f3 \u00abLa Mirada\u00bb, 87, 2011<\/p>\n\n\n<p>ISBN: 978-84-7588-274-1<\/p>\n\n\n<p>336 p., 21,50 x 13,20 cm<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josep Pedreira i Fern\u00e1ndez (Barcelona, 1917-2003) was born in a galician family established in the Sants neighbourhood in Barcelona. He studied trade and literature, and fought for the Republican Forces during the Spanish Civil War. In post-war years, he joined the Catalan National Front, worked with editor Josep Jan\u00e9s and in 1949 he created the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-482","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/getcc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/getcc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/getcc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/getcc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/getcc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/getcc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2550,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/getcc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/482\/revisions\/2550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/getcc\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}