Josep Maria Junoy i Muns
Spain (1887—1955)After spending several years in Paris selling art books, Junoy worked as a journalist, caricaturist and poet. Influenced by Apollinaire, he returned to Spain and collaborated with several journals and magazines. He is credited with creating Oda a Guynemer, considered the first calligram in Catalan and an important contribution to the introduction of the avant-garde in Catalonia. In 1917, he founded and directed the magazine Troços, which brought together Cubist and Futurist influences. During the Spanish Civil War, he was persecuted by the FAI because of his Catholic faith. In 1941, the Francoist regime revoked his journalist’s licence, which was restored only years later.
