Carles Torner

Carles Torner

Carles Torner is a Catalan writer. He has been active in PEN International’s work for over twenty years; in that time he has served as a member of the board, chair of the Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee. He has also participated in several missions for imprisoned writers. He has published essays and poems about PEN’s defense of freedom of expression across the world.

Before joining PEN as Executive Director, he was director of the Literature and Humanities Department at the Ramon Llull Institute, where he was in charge of the presence of Catalan literature as guest of honour at the Frankfurt book fair and the Guadalajara International book fair. He holds a PhD from the university of Paris VIII and was a lecturer in Communication and International Relations at Blanquerna, Universitat Ramon Llull, in Barcelona. Torner has published several volumes of poetry: In the White City (1984, Amadeu Oller Award), The Limits of Salt (1984, Carles Riba Award), The Angel of Plunder (1990), Life Afterwards (1998, National Critics Award) and Europe's Bride (2008). He has also published a novel, The Foreign Woman (1997), the essay Shoah, a Pedagogy of Memory (2001) and Babel's Arch (2005), a book mixing narrative and essay, in the form of thirty-five letters to women from different countries who are struggling against the threats to their languages and cultures.
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Carles Torner Katalan bir yazardır. 20 yılı aşkındır Uluslararası PEN aktivisti ve çalışanıdır. Bu süre içerisinde yönetici kurul üyeliği, çeviri ve dil hakları komitesi başkanlığını üstlenmiştir. Tutuklu yazarlar için de pek çok proje yürütmüştür. PEN’in ifade özgürlüğü mücadelesini konu edinen makaleleri ve şiirleri yayınlanmıştır.

Yönetici müdür olarak PEN’e katılmadan evvel, Ramon Llull Enstitüsü’nde Dil bilimi ve sosyal bilimler bölümünün başındaydı. Burada Katalan edebiyatını Frankfurt Kitap Fuarı’nda ve Guadalajara Kitap Fuarı’nda konuk ülke olarak tanıtmakla görevliydi. university of Paris VII’ten doktorası vardır ve Blanquerna, Universitat Ramon Llull’da İletişim ve Uluslararası İlişkiler öğretim üyesiydi. Pek çok şiir kitabı vardır: Torner has published several volumes of poetry: In the White City (1984, Amadeu Oller Award), The Limits of Salt (1984, Carles Riba Award), The Angel of Plunder (1990), Life Afterwards (1998, National Critics Award) and Europe's Bride (2008). He has also published a novel, The Foreign Woman (1997), the essay Shoah, a Pedagogy of Memory (2001) and Babel's Arch (2005)