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<\/p>\nThe list of books that speak of our beloved island is long but we have made a selection of four essential writers in order to understand Menorca through their books and thoughts; four narrators who through their pages have made this island a referent beyond its geographic limits. Pon\u00e7 Pons, Pau Faner, Josep M\u00aa Quintana and Maite Salord.<\/p>\n
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Pon\u00e7 Pons, the poet<\/p>\n
He is one of the most respected writers of our island. His pen often reflects the customs and manners of Menorca through the eyes of a person who experiences literature as an obsessive, lucid and devouring passion. Just as the author himself explains, his poetry is classical in the rhythm, modern in the expression and forceful in the content. His latest published work is\u00a0Camp de Bard<\/em>\u00a0in which he brings together his two great passions, nature and poetry, an extensive book of poems that delves into the most authentic Menorca way of life, in love with philosophy, art and even embracing the most universal humanism.<\/p>\n Photograph: Diari Menorca<\/p><\/div>\n Pau Faner, the referent<\/p>\n We are before one of the writers from our island who has won most prizes. These include the Sant Jordi novel award, the Ramon Llull, the Sant Joan\u2026, Faner has harvested all the major prizes of Catalan literature. With forty published works of novels, theatre and narrative, his latest work,\u00a0L\u2019amor del Capit\u00e0 Gavina<\/em>, is a book inspired by the life of the sailor Jordi Farragut, father of Admiral David G. Farragut, which tells of his adventures on reaching North America in 1775.<\/p>\n Josep Maria Quintana, the jurist<\/p>\n Behind the serious gesture of this property registrar is concealed and great writer and music lover whose literary vocation has gifted Menorca one of its leading works of literature. Quintana boldly makes a novel of a long period of the island\u2019s history through the personal vicissitudes of a Greek sailor, Iorgos Nikolaidis, with whom the reader can savour the splendid past of the port of Mah\u00f3n or relive the political battles and successive conquests of the island.<\/p>\n Maite Salord, the lady<\/p>\n The current President of the Menorca Island Council is a well-known writer with a long-stranding professional career as a teacher of Catalan and literature whose cultural baggage has rewarded her with several prizes for novels, and juvenile and children\u2019s literature. Even though her latest novel published,\u00a0L\u2019al\u00e8 de les cendres,<\/em>\u00a0takes place in Mallorca, it represents a work of maturity by this lady of letters in Catalan that speaks to us of the Civil War and the post-war as experienced by a family.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The list of books that speak of our beloved island is long but we have made a selection of four essential writers in order to understand Menorca through their books and thoughts; four narrators who through their pages have made this island a referent beyond […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[287,1271,1273,1269],"yoast_head":"\n![](\"\/\/www.bonninsanso.com\/discoverymenorca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/pau-faner-3-1024x683.jpg\")
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