Enric Sòria Parra (Oliva, La Safor, País Valencià, 1958). Writer. Graduated in History from the University of Valencia. He has worked as a journalist for the weekly El Temps and the newspaper Avui. He has also been a reader or collaborator for various publishing houses and literary magazines. As a poet, he has published Mirall de miratges (1982), Varia et memorabilia (1984, reissued with additions in 1988), Compàs d'espera (1993) and L'instant etern (1999). In general, his verses are meditations on the passage of time and human nature expressed with a language that seeks clarity and effectiveness. He has also published the diaries Mentre parlem (1991) and La lentitud del mar; the essay collections Sermonari laic (1994), Incitacions (1997), L'espill de Janus (2000) and Cartes de prop (2006), on various topics, especially literary, and the work Trenta anys de cultura literària a la Safor (1990). He has translated works by Thomas de Quincey (Les confessions d'un opiòman anglés, 1995), Franz Kafka (La metamorfosi, in collaboration with Heike van Lawick, 1989) and Sam Abrams (part of Tot el desig a peu de plana, in collaboration with the author himself, 2003). Carlos Marzal translated an anthology of his verses, Andén de cercanías, into Spanish (1996). source: www.cervantesvirtual.com
