Josep Carles Laínez
Josep Carles Laínez is a Spanish writer who lives in Valencia, Spain and Encamp, 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, and 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.
In his book of poetry Música junto al río, he uses a dialectal Valencian-Aragonese from the region of his parents. His book La piedra ente la ñeve is notable as the first Latter-day Saint-related book published in Asturian and the first to use the Deseret alphabet for a language other than English. He has also published a translation of aphorisms from the Asturian into the Spanish language.
Laínez is a columnist for the Andorran newspaper El Periòdic d'Andorra, and has been a visiting professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, University of Puerto Rico, Hofstra University of New York and Komazawa University of Tokyo.Publications
In Spanish
Poetry
- Exotica martyria, Valencia: Ojuebuey, 1991
- Música junto al río, Valencia: Llambert Palmart, 2001.
Fiction
- Alma, Valencia: Ediciones de la Mirada, 1998.
- Una noche más, Valencia: Llambert Palmart, 2002.
Non-Fiction
- La tumba de Leónidas, Barcelona: Áltera, 2006.
- Aquí la noche tiene el nombre de Valeria, Valencia: Institució Alfons el Magnànim, 2007.
In Catalan
Poetry
- Dionysiaka, Alzira: Germania, 1995
- Anxia, Alzira: Bromera, 2001
Drama
- Berlín, Valencia: Llambert Palmart, 2001.
In Asturian
Poetry
- La piedra ente la ñeve, Uviéu: Trabe, 2010.
Drama
- Elsa metálico, Uviéu: Academia Llingua Asturiana, 1998.
- Thule, Uviéu: Academia Llingua Asturiana, 2010.
In Aragonese
Poetry
- En o gudrón espigol xuto, Teruel: Sur Edizions, 1991.
- Aire de liloileras: , Uesca: Consello d'a Fabla Aragonesa, 1992.
- A besita de l'ánchel, Uesca: Consello d'a Fabla Aragonesa, 1994.
- Bel diya, Uesca: Consello d'a Fabla Aragonesa, 1998.