Carlos Pujol, Member of the Academic and Social Council and Former Professor at the UIC, Dies

After receiving a doctoral degree
in Romance Philology, Carlos Pujol led an extremely active professional career, which
involved working as an editorial advisor, literary critic, translator, poet and
novelist, university professor, feature writer and literary advisor at Planeta
publishing house.
He was a professor of French
Literature at the Universitat de Barcelona for 15 years, a role he combined with his
passion for writing. In 1981 he published his first novel, La
Sombra del Tiempo (The Shadow of Time), and went on to write a dozen
more books, the last of which was Los Fugitivos (The
Fugitives) in 2011.
He also published about 10 essays
and translated around 60 works by different authors from several languages,
including English, French, Italian and Catalan. As a poet, he published more
than a dozen collections.
He started teaching in the
Faculty of Humanities of the Universitat
Internacional de Catalunya when
the university was first created until 2007 and was a member of the Academic
and Social Council at the time of his death.
Concepció Peig, a professor in the Faculty of Humanities, said that
Dr. Pujol was
a prominent figure in modern literature, and yet he was one of the lesser-known
contemporary writers. She said, “He never liked fame. He based his literary and
personal style on discretion, respect and the irony that was always present in
his work. The only passion he indulged in was writing”.
Dr. Peig and
the other professors of the faculty also regarded him as “a teacher of teachers,
a model of intellectual generosity, warmth and what Dante referred to as intelletto
d'amore (intelligence of
love)”.
The entire university community mourns
his loss and expresses its most heartfelt condolences to the family.