Joan Oliver i Sallarès

He was nominated president of the Association of Catalan Writers and leader of Generalitat's Ministry of Culture publications.

All this means a definite break with his bourgeois past and the birth of a strong political, ethical and social commitment.

In this context he created "Ode to Barcelona" (of clear nationalistic and revolutionary trend) and the play "The Hunger" (La Fam, where the problems of the revolution are brought up).

Finished the war will exile first in France, embark towards Buenos Aires and establish definitively in Santiago of Chile, where he will live for eight years.

Three years later he received the Prize of the French Republic President in the floral games of Paris, for the translation into Catalan of The Misanthrope by Molière.

With the death of the dictator and democracy entry, he was especially displeased with the dominant politicians, denouncing the betrayal that meant the transition.

[2] As a playwright, Oliver helped to make cracks on the Franco's regime to recover the Catalan theater.