Albert Jané

Albert Jané was born in Barcelona in 1930. He became known especially as a grammarian and populariser of Catalan language subjects and as a translator and adaptor of illustrated histories and stories aimed at children and young people. A large part of this activity took place in the magazine Cavall Fort, of which he was director until his retirement in 1997 and to which he still contributes. He has adapted into Catalan some of the most important European comic series (Jan i Trancapins, Els barrufets, Gil Pupil-la, Aquil-les Taló, Benet Tallaferro, Estefi, Corto Maltese…) and translated, among many other texts, Pinocchio by Collodi and the fairy tales of Perrault, the Brothers Grimm and Andersen. His adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey won him the ‘Serra d’Or’ critics’ prize in 2009. He has been a member of the Philological Section of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans since 200. Prize of Honour of Catalan Letters 2024.