Juan Ramón Masoliver

Juan Ramon Masoliver (1910–1997) was a Spanish art critic, essayist and translator. He was a pioneer of the Surrealist movement in Catalonia, helping to found the Surrealist magazine Helix in 1929, with Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel. Living in Paris in the 1930s, he was a friend of James Joyce and a secretary to Ezra Pound.

After the Spanish Civil War, he returned to Spain and worked briefly for General Franco. He wrote for more than 60 years in the pages of La Vanguardia. His books include Presentation of James Joyce (1981) and Profile of Clouds (1991). He was also an award-winning translator of Italian literature; among his translations are works by such as Guido Cavalcanti, Carlo Emilio Gadda and Italo Calvino.