Prudenci Bertrana

Some years later, he went to Barcelona to pursue a course in industrial engineering and managed such magazines as L'Esquella de la Torratxa or La Campana de Gràcia.

Bertrana also collaborated with other newspapers such as El Poble Català, La Publicitat, Revista de Catalunya and La Veu de Catalunya.

His works (specially short stories) are based on three principal aspects: landscape, peasants and animals.

Bertrana's novels, structured from a careful and detailed observation of the world, are grounded in his own life experience as a writer and a man of his time.

It is, however, with the trilogy Entre la terra i els núvols (Between the Earth and the Clouds), comprising L'hereu (The heir, 1931), El vagabund (The vagrant, 1933) i L'impenitent (The unrepentant, 1948), where an autobiographic purpose is most clearly reflected, based on his personal frustration, the hardest part of which was the death of three of his sons.