Catalan is a great European language

In an interview conducted by Nathalie Levisalles, the writer Sergi Pamies, who writes novels in Catalan and articles in Spanish, explains that "you can be a Spanish-speaking Catalan, and you can also be a Catalan speaker without being a Catalan. I like the idea of not having to depend on a passport to write in a certain language. But it must be understood that Catalan is one of Europe's great languages, with its own history and literature ... . It is necessary to avoid committing injustice at all costs. It would be a gross injustice to not consider as illustrious members of Catalan culture those Catalan writers who are from Barcelona and write in Spanish such as Mendoza, Vila-Matas, Vasquez Montalban and Carlos Ruiz Zafon. And it would be just as unfair to overlook the fact that this great European language has great writers such as Josep Pla and Quim Monzo."

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