He played a major role in the country's political and cultural movement.
Roqueta was the president of the Institut d'Estudis Occitans (IEO) for a number of years and his brother Joan, better known as Joan Larzac [Wikidata], is also a writer and an Occitan activist.
He founded the Ventadorn record company, which is credited for providing Nòva cançon singers with a media outlet.
He was regarded by some Occitan activists as a pioneer of his generation and one of the nation's most talented poets and novelists.
Others have maintained that he had a negative impact on the Occitan movement during the late 1970s and the 1980s.