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Quim Torra
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former president of Catalonia (born 1962)
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Joaquim Torra i Pla, known as Quim Torra, is a Spanish writer, lawyer, editor, and politician born in Blanes on December 28, 1962. He holds citizenship in Spain and resides in Barcelona, where he also works. Torra has served as the President of the Generalitat of Catalonia. He is a member of the political parties Reagrupament and Democratic Union of Catalonia, as well as the organizations Òmnium Cultural, Assemblea Nacional Catalana, and Crida Nacional per la República.
Torra was educated at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and has worked for the Winterthur Group. He speaks Catalan, Spanish, and English. His legal counsel includes Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas and Gonzalo Boye. He was a candidate in the 2017 Catalan parliamentary election and has three children.
As an author, Torra has published works including *Els últims 100 metres*, *El quadern suís*, *Les millors obres de la literatura catalana*, *Honorables*, and *Viatge involuntari a la Catalunya impossible*. His writings have been associated with concepts in humanities, art, computer science, history, and philosophy.
Synthesized by Vinony from 35 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, OpenAlex, Open Library, Crossref, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1962
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Els últims 100 metres
- El quadern suís
- Les millors obres de la literatura catalana
- Honorables
- Viatge involuntari a la Catalunya impossible
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 98
- Total plays
- 646
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Quim+Torra">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 18
- Cited by
- 0
Research areas
Most cited works
- L'ofici d'escriure: conversa amb Josep Maria Espinàs i Ramon Folch i Camarasa2016 · 0 cit
- Manuel Fontdevila: el periodisme perdut d'un homenot excepcional2009 · 0 cit
- El born: punt de trobada de la cultura i la història catalanes.2013 · 0 cit
- Camps i arboix, polític a contravent2009 · 0 cit
- Maria Barbal i Jaume Cabrè, llengua, literatura i país2017 · 0 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- <i>Gaia</i> Data Release 2
· 2018 · cited 7,447x
- The<i>Gaia</i>mission
· 2016 · cited 6,414x
- <i>Gaia</i> Data Release 3
· 2023 · cited 4,144x
- <i>Gaia</i>Early Data Release 3
· 2021 · cited 3,750x
- <i>Gaia</i>Data Release 1
· 2016 · cited 1,819x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Monarch
- Felipe VI
- Vice president
- Pere Aragonès
- Preceded by
- Direct rule , Carles Puigdemont (until 28 October 2017)
- Succeeded by
- Pere Aragonès
- Born
- Joaquim Torra i Pla , ( 1962-12-28 ) 28 December 1962 (age 63) , Blanes , Catalonia , Spain
- Party
- Together for Catalonia (since 2020)
- Other political affiliations
- Reagrupament , Democratic Union of Catalonia (until 2017), Independent (2017–2020)
- Spouse
- Carola Miró ( died 2024 )
- Alma mater
- Autonomous University of Barcelona
- Occupation
- Lawyer and editor
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Joaquim Torra i Pla ( Catalan: [ʒu.əˈkim ˈtorə i pla]; born 28 December 1962), known as Quim Torra, is a Catalan lawyer and journalist from Spain. He served as President of the Government of Catalonia from 17 May 2018 to 28 September 2020, when the Supreme Court of Spain confirmed a court ruling by the High Court of Justice of Catalonia condemning him for disobeying the Central Electoral Board during the April 2019 general election, leading to his disqualification from office.
Born in Blanes, Torra graduated from the Autonomous University of Barcelona before joining the legal profession. He worked as executive for a multinational insurance company for twenty years before starting his own publishing company. He later held senior positions for the City of Barcelona and Generalitat de Catalunya.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Quim Torra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.