Eugeni d'Ors

Eugeni d’Ors i Rovira (Barcelona, 1881 – Vilanova i la Geltrú, 1954) was a Spanish writer, essayist, journalist, philosopher and art critic from Catalonia. He wrote in both Spanish and Catalan, sometimes under the pseudonym of Xenius. In the spanish literature, he is better known as Eugenio d'Ors.

He studied laws in Barcelona and got his PhD degree in Madrid.

He collaborated from 1906 on in "La Veu de Catalunya" and was a member of Catalan Noucentisme. He was the secretary of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans in 1911 and director of the "Instrución Pública de la Mancomunitat de Catalunya" in 1917, but he left in 1920 after Enric Prat de la Riba's death. In 1923 he moved to Madrid where he became a member of the Real Academia Española in 1927. In 1938, during Spanish Civil War he was the minister on Fine Arts in Burgos.

Works

In Catalan

* "La fi d’Isidre Nonell", 1902 (narración)
* "Gloses de quaresma", 1911
* "La ben plantada", 1911
* "Gualba la de mil veus", 1911
* "Oceanografia del tedi", 1918
* "La vall de Josafat", 1918
* "Gloses de la vaga", 1919

In Spanish

* "Estudios de arte" (1932)
* "Introducción a la vida angélica. Cartas a una soledad", 1939
* "Novísimo glosario" (1946)
* "El secreto de la filosofía", 1947
* "La verdadera historia de Lidia de Cadaqués", 1954

External links

* [http://www.ensayistas.org/filosofos/spain/Ors/ Eugenio d'Ors (1881-1954)]
* [http://www.unav.es/gep/dors/indice.htm Eugenio d'Ors: Vida y obra (Universidad de Navarra)]

In Catalan:

* [http://www.uoc.edu/lletra/noms/edors/index.html Eugeni d'Ors (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)]
* [http://www.escriptors.cat/autors/orsed/pagina.php?id_sec=1315 Eugeni d'Ors (Escriptors en Llengua Catalana)]