IN THE PRESS
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"Lletra is a vast, quality website devoted to Catalan literature, and will be of immense value to anyone working on, or generally interested in, Catalan studies. It features studies and reviews of individual writers, works, literary movements and genres, overviews of literary histories, and provides an impressive number of annotated links to all these areas as well. The site's excellent directory of Catalan writers (including: Ramon Llull; Josep Pla; Mercè Rodoreda; Montserrat Roig; and many more) provides extensive bio-bibliographic details and links to relevant online resources. Reviews and synopses of various notable Catalan works are available online, as are excellent overviews of such periods and movements which have impacted upon Catalan literary history as the baroque, modernism, and romanticism [...] Easy-to-navigate and packed with information, this site is an essential resource for all students and researchers of Catalan literary and cultural studies. The user should note that the Catalan version of this site has a different layout to the English and Spanish ones. Highly recommended. "
Intute project, by Joint Information Systems Committee [30/11/2009]
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"The UOC houses the imaginative Lletra, where, among other things, you can listen on mp3 to the music that has been put to many poems or link up to some fifty digital publications, from PDFs of old headlines to digital versions of contemporary journals such as Els Marges."
Tomàs Delclós, El País [19/05/2008]
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"Music of Poets contributes to the dissemination of the cultural heritage of the twentieth century and fosters the knowledge of quality music and literature. "La Malla [04/2007]
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""...the benchmark website for literary matters in Catalan on the internet: Lletra, created by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC)."
llibresebrencs.org [10/2006]
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"Lletra, then, is a space that perfectly fulfils the requirements we have mentioned; on the one hand, it is a cultural value that is offered to the community regardless of whether they belong to its circle of students or not. On the other, it brings together and rationalises resources that would otherwise be spread over the far corners of the web, or not. You will probably have heard of the saying that goes that the difficulty is not in achieving a specific objective but in keeping it going. And to keep it going calls for constant revision and improvement. One of the quality indicators of websites is the level of updating that they undergo by their webmasters. Lletra has achieved it, has kept going and has expanded."
Joan Orriols, "A cultural value aimed at students", Regió 7 [29/11/2005]
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"The Lletra e-journal, which also has versions in Spanish and English, offers current news relating to the arts in Catalan. Its Noms propis (Proper Names) section is almost a who's who of its classics and contemporaries. Also very useful is its compilation of websites devoted to specific authors."
Josep M. Sarriegui, El Pais, "Babelia" [27/11/2004]
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""Lletra is an excellent portal from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC) devoted to literature in Catalan. Well done and with loads of information (about prizes, journals, authors, publishers, etc.). A visit to this model site http://www.uoc.edu/lletra/ is essential."
Blanco y Negro Cultural [11/09/2004]
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"Lletra, which plays an exceptional role in placing new technologies at the service of the demanding and friendly dissemination of literary culture, rounded off its third year by offering elements for discussion and reflection at an event that we so badly need."
Oriol Izquierdo, La Vanguardia, [06/01/2004]
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"Lletra is the best website devoted to Catalan literature. Created by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC), and with the support of numerous institutions, Lletra is an essential and constantly updated reference for getting to know classics and contemporaries."
ABC, "Cultural" [13/09/2003]
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"With the support of the Balearic Government, the UOC has created a true virtual encyclopaedia of Catalan arts, where you can get to know the life and work of the most established authors and discover writers from all eras. But not just that, as Lletra is a living and up-to-date space to keep informed of literary competitions, the best websites, publications, journals and organisations on the subject, learn more of the history of our literature and get to know all the corners of the internet offering information on Catalan arts."
Yahoo! in Catalan, in awarding the prize to the best Art and Culture site in 2002 [December 2002]
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"The new acrylics by Narcís Comadira that can be seen on Lletra seem to me to work pretty well for the virtual visitor like a great little exhibition."
Bartomeu Fiol, Diari de Balears [23/07/2002]
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