Josep Carles Laínez

Josep Carles Laínez (1970) is a Spanish writer living between Valencia, Spain and Encamp (Principality of Andorra). A graduate of the University of Valencia in Catalan and Spanish Philology and Audio-visual Communication, his main interest is in European minority languages. He has published original books and/or articles in Catalan, English, Spanish, Occitan, Aragonese and Asturian. He is currently the Editor-in-chief of the literary-philosophical quarterly journal "Debats". Among his latest work he has published a translation of aphorisms from the Asturian into the Spanish language (Ene marginalia, 2003). In his book of poetry "Música junto al río" ("Music by the River", 2001), he uses a dialectal Valencian-Aragonese from the region of his parents. He is a columnist for the Andorran newspaper El Periòdic d'Andorra and also a member of the "Thomas Cranmer" Theological Circle. Laínez has been a visiting professor at the UNAM (Mexico D.F.), University of Puerto Rico and Hofstra University of New York.

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* [http://www.alfonselmagnanim.com/debats/index.htm "Debats"]