Carles Fages de Climent

Who was Carles Fages de Climent?

Carles Fages de Climent was a writer, poet and journalist from the Empordà, a historical region of Catalonia, Spain. He was born in Figueres on the 16th of May 1902. In Figueres' high school, he met Salvador Dalí, starting a friendship that would last all their lives.

Fages de Climent contributed to the literary mythification of his native region, taking the Empordà, the northern wind, the tramuntana and its people as a thematic basis of a multiple literary production. Thus, he created literary characters like the Cobbler of Ordis – comparable, according to Eugeni d'Ors to Don Quixote of Cervantes. He also contributed in a decisive way to conferring determinate attributions to certain villages of the Empordà like.