Antoni Clapés

Antoni Clapés is a poet, translator and poetry publisher. To date, he has published some 30 poetry books and countless texts in art publications, forewords to books, opuscules (plaquettes) and anthologies. His poetry has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, German, Polish, Romanian, Romansh and English.

He has also translated poetry himself, mainly from French (Philippe Jaccottet especially) and Italian. He has translated the Québécois poets Denise Desautels, Nicole Brossard, Louise Dupré and Diane Régimbald, along with the Italian-language poets Pietro Civitareale and Remo Fasani. On top of this, he is a poetry publisher and a cultural activist. Between 1970 and 1974 he helped to create and run Sala Tres, a space devoted to contemporary art. In 1976, he opened the book shop Els Dies in Sabadell, later creating the publishing house Les Edicions dels Dies (1981–1986).