Miquel Martí i Pol

[1] [2] At the age of 14, Martí i Pol started work in the office of a textile factory.

[2] He worked at the factory until 1973, when at the age of 43 the multiple sclerosis he had contracted forced him to quit.

Martí i Pol spent his whole life in the town of his birth, Roda de Ter.

Among the authors he translated are Saint-Exupéry, Simone de Beauvoir, Apollinaire, Flaubert, Barthes, Lévi-Strauss and Zola.

[5][6] Martí i Pol was an active member of the PSUC (Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia) under the last years of the Franco dictatorship.

The factory where Martí i Pol worked for 30 years in the foreground. His town, Roda de Ter, in the background.
Poem on the wall of the birthplace of Miquel Martí i Pol