The main activities of the poet, playwright and translator Josep Carner i Puig-Oriol (Barcelona 1884 – Brussels 1970) fall outside the historical scope of Romantic Nationalism (thus, for instance, his masterpiece, the 1941 narrative poem Nabí); so does his post-1918 career, which took him by way of diplomatic postings in Genoa and Paris (1921-37) into political exile (Mexico, Belgium). He was, however, a precocious writer making his literary mark from an early age, and an adherent of Catalan regionalism since his student days, publishing in La Veu de Catalunya and directing several journals: Catalunya (1903-05, 1913-14) and Empori (1907-08). Carner began his literary work as a playwright (Al vapor, 1901, and a stage adaptation of Jacint Verdaguer’s Canigó, 1910). In his early poetic work, mention should be made of Llibre dels poetes (1904), Primer llibre de sonets (1905), Els fruits saborosos (1906), Segon llibre de sonets (1907), Verger de les galanies (1911) and Auques i ventalls (1914). His early prose writings were collected in Les planetes del Verdum (1918). In 1911 he was appointed secretary of the Philological Section of the Institute of Catalan Studies. His literary work evolved from Romanticism, the Renaixença and Symbolism to a more classically inspired form (making him the outstanding poet of the anti-modernist noucentisme movement). Mention should also be made of his extensive work as translator into Catalan, mainly of English novels, but also of Shakespeare (from French versions), Molière and others. Carner was also the first literary director of the publishing house “Editorial Catalana”, in which capacity he fostered translations into Catalan so as to integrate Catalan literary culture with the literary masterpieces of Europe at large.