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Tomàs Garcés

1901-1993 ES
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A.k.a. Tomàs Garcés i Miravet

Tomàs Garcés i Miravet ([tuˈmaz ɣərˈses]) (9 October 1901 – 16 November 1993, Barcelona) was a Catalan poet and lawyer.Garcés was born in Barcelona. He studied law, philosophy and literature in the University of Barcelona.At the time of the Spanish Civil War Garcés fled to France where he was a teacher of Spanish language in the University of Toulouse. He returned to Catalonia in 1947.Tomas was called "The Catalan poet of song" for his short regular verses.His style was identified[by whom?] with the Castilian language poets Federico García Lorca and Rafael Alberti.