Josepmiquel Servià i Figa (Palamós, 1948 - Barcelona, 2024) was a lawyer, journalist and writer.

After training as a lawyer, he went on to study Philosophy and Journalism at the University of Barcelona and specialised in international studies in Strasburg, Lisbon, Beirut, and Nice. His writing covers several fields including poetry, fiction, journalism, educational texts, the biographical essay, and his name also featured among those of distinguished writers in the newspapers El Punt, Avui, La Vanguardia, and Punt Diari.

Among his poetic writings are the collections Jerarca de llum, La barca encesa, and Manual d’oficis, and he also worked to popularise poetry in radio programmes like Pati de lletres and El Suplement. He was awarded the Víctor Català Prize for Fiction, the Gaziel Prize for Journalism for the biography Gabriel Ferrater: reportatge en el record, and was author of songs, among them Ulls verds in the traditional style of the havanera, and the Catalan version of the Anthem of Europe.

Moreover, as a political scientist and activist for Catalan language and culture, he was both member and secretary of the Barcelona Athenaeum, was active in local politics as a city councillor in Palamós (1995-1996), and also in the Generalitat (Government) and the Diputació (Provincial Government) of Catalonia after the first President of the Generalitat, Josep Tarradellas, returned from exile.

He was an honorary member of the Associació d’Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (AELC – Association of Catalan Language Writers).

Web page: Álvaro Muñoz Hernández for AELC.
Documentation: Enciclopèdia Catalana and the AELC “Lletres i memòria” project.
Cover photograph: AELC / Lletres i Memòria.
Transaltion: Julie Wark.