Josep Carles Laínez

Josep Carles Laínez (born 1970) is a Spanish writer who lives in Valencia, Spain and Encamp, Andorra. A graduate of the University of Valencia in Catalan and Spanish Philology and Audio-visual Communication, his main interest is in European minority languages, and he has published original books and/or articles in Catalan, English, Spanish, Occitan, Aragonese and Asturian. He is currently the Editor-in-chief of the literary-philosophical quarterly journal Debats.

In his book of poetry Música junto al río (Music by the River, 2001), he uses a dialectal Valencian-Aragonese from the region of his parents. His book La piedra ente la ñeve (The Stone in the Snow, 2010) is notable as the first Latter-day Saint-related book published in Asturian and the first to use the Deseret alphabet for a language other than English. He has also published a translation of aphorisms from the Asturian into the Spanish language (Ene marginalia, 2003).

Laínez is a columnist for the Andorran newspaper El Periòdic d'Andorra, and has been a visiting professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, University of Puerto Rico, Hofstra University of New York and Komazawa University of Tokyo.

In Spanish
Poetry Fiction Non-Fiction
 * Exotica martyria, Valencia: Ojuebuey, 1991
 * Música junto al río, Valencia: Llambert Palmart, 2001. ISBN 84-931682-2-X
 * Alma, Valencia: Ediciones de la Mirada, 1998. ISBN 84-922869-4-6
 * Una noche más, Valencia: Llambert Palmart, 2002. ISBN 84-932752-6-3
 * La tumba de Leónidas, Barcelona: Áltera, 2006. ISBN 84-89779-91-0
 * Aquí la noche tiene el nombre de Valeria, Valencia: Institució Alfons el Magnànim, 2007. ISBN 978-84-7822-497-5

In Catalan
Poetry Drama
 * Dionysiaka, Alzira: Germania, 1995
 * Anxia, Alzira: Bromera, 2001
 * Berlín, Valencia: Llambert Palmart, 2001. ISBN 84-931682-4-6

In Asturian
Poetry Drama
 * La piedra ente la ñeve, Uviéu: Trabe, 2010. ISBN 978-84-8053-559-5
 * Elsa metálico, Uviéu: Academia Llingua Asturiana, 1998. ISBN 84-8168-149-0
 * Thule, Uviéu: Academia Llingua Asturiana, 2010. ISBN 84-8168-493-7

In Aragonese
Poetry
 * En o gudrón espigol xuto, Teruel: Sur Edizions, 1991.
 * Aire de liloileras: (peruigilium veneris), Uesca: Consello d'a Fabla Aragonesa, 1992. ISBN 84-86036-40-2
 * A besita de l'ánchel, Uesca: Consello d'a Fabla Aragonesa, 1994. ISBN 84-86036-50-X
 * Bel diya, Uesca: Consello d'a Fabla Aragonesa, 1998. ISBN 84-86036-72-0