Jaume Miravitlles

Caricature of Jaume Miravitlles

Jaume "Met" Miravitlles i Navarra (Figueres, 18 February 1906 – Barcelona, 10 November 1988)[1][2][dead link] was a Catalan writer, politician, and journalist. He served as Commissary for Propaganda of the Catalan Government during the Spanish Civil War.[2][3] He published articles in Nova Ibèria in 1937, a propaganda magazine of the Commissary for Propaganda.[4]

He was an acquaintance of Salvador Dalí[2] and appeared alongside him, as a priest, in the 1929 surrealist film Un Chien Andalou.[5]

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  3. ^ Huertas Claveria, Josep M. (20 February 2007). "La guerra de Met Miravitlles" (PDF). La Vanguardia: 7.
  4. ^ Carl-Henrik Bjerström (2021). "A Respectable Revolution: Republican Cultural Mobilisation during the Spanish Civil War". Cultural and Social History. 18 (1): 104. doi:10.1080/14780038.2021.1886388.
  5. ^ Luis Buñuel: The Red Years, 1929–1939. University of Wisconsin Pres. 4 January 2012. ISBN 978-0-299-28473-2.