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| Josep Lluís Savall |
Josep Lluís Savall Rom (1959-2006) was born on the Beach of Cambrils in a family of fishermen. He arranged the family office with the studies of Catalan Philology in the University of Tarragona, when it was still part of the University of Barcelona.
He was a founding member and also president of the artistic-literary group La Gent del Llamp.
Among his publications, it is worth mentioning several texts of literary creation and a study-prologue to a selection of Poetry by Jaume Vidal Alcover. He was head of the area of activities of the Maritime Museum of Barcelona.
In the field of research, Josep Lluís Savall presented, in February of the year 1990, as a degree thesis, the work that was titled The Vocabulary of the Fishermen of Cambrils. This was an exhaustive study that semantically ordered the terms used by fishermen, masters of hawk and cameraman shipowners and it gives the definitions very often accompanied by precise drawings that complement the graphic vocabulary of the sailor.
Peace has always been my greatest concern.
I learnt to love it when I was but a child. When I was a boy, my mother, an exceptional, marvellous woman, would talk to me about peace, because at that time there were also many wars.
What is more, I am Catalan.
Catalonia had the first democratic parliament, well before England did.
And the first United Nations were in my country. At that time, the Eleventh Century , there was a meeting in Toluges -now France- to talk about peace, because in that epoch Catalans were already against, AGAINST war.
That is why the United Nations, which works solely towards the peace ideal, is in my heart, because anything to do with peace goes straight to my heart.
Pau Casals, United Nations Speech 1971
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