Josep Carles Laínez (born 1970) is a Spanish writer who lives in Valencia, Spain and Encamp, Andorra.
A graduate of the University of Valencia in Catalan and Spanish Philology and Audio-visual Communication, his main interest is in European minority languages,[1] and he has published original books and/or articles in Catalan, English, Spanish, Occitan, Aragonese and Asturian.
In his book of poetry Música junto al río (Music by the River, 2001), he uses a dialectal Valencian-Aragonese from the region of his parents.
His book La piedra ente la ñeve (The Stone in the Snow, 2010) is notable as the first Latter-day Saint-related book published in Asturian and the first to use the Deseret alphabet for a language other than English.
[2] He has also published a translation of aphorisms from the Asturian into the Spanish language (Ene marginalia, 2003).