Josep Palau i Fabre

Josep Palau i Fabre (born 21 April 1917 in Barcelona; died in the same city on 23 February 2008) was a Spanish Catalan poet and writer.

He was a representative of Catalan literature during the post-World War period and a world expert on the work of Pablo Picasso.

The son of a painter and decorator, towards the end of the 1930s Fabre began his literary career by writing poetry.

He studied arts at the University of Barcelona, and, during the 1950s, he was an active collaborator in various literary magazines such as Poesia and Ariel as well as being an editor at the La serena publishing house.

Fabre died at the Hospital de la Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona aged 90 years and was buried in the municipal cemetery in Caldes d'Estrac.