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Carles Torner (Barcelona, 1963) is a Catalan writer. He has published poetry, essay and fiction. He holds a PhD in Education Sciences from Paris 8 University.

The translation into Catalan and Spanish of this PhD Tesis Shoah, une pédagogie de la mémoire (2001) introduced Claude Lanzmann’s movie in Spanish academic circles. He researched the indigenous movement in Chiapas and published a book of interviews with Samuel Ruiz, Bishop of San Cristobal de las Casas (1959-1999).

He served as director of the Literature and the Humanities Division at the Institut Ramon Llull (2004-2010), in charge of the literary program at Catalan Culture Guest of Honor at Frankfurt Book Fair 2007. He has long worked actively for the organization PEN International, a writers' organization that among other issues, works for release of imprisoned writers all over the world. He has participated in missions for imprisoned writers in Peru, Mexico, Honduras, Kazakhstan and Turkey. As chair of the PEN’s Committee of Translation and Linguistic Rights (1996-2004) he initiated and promoted in UNESCO the Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights. He was Executive Director of PEN International (2014-2020) and became in 2020 director of the centenary del PEN Internacional

He was the editor of ''PEN International. An illustrated history'' together with Jan Martens, chairing the team of researchers producing the account of one hundred years of PEN.