The journalist and writer Xavier Borràs dies

BarcelonaThe journalist and writer Xavier Borràs Calvo (Barcelona, ​​​​1956) died this Friday, April 25, at the age of 68, in Vall d'en Bas, in La Garrotxa. Borràs had a long career in the media: he worked in Digital Nation, Tele/eXpres, Canigou, Barcelona Diary, Catalonia Radio, The March of Catalonia and The TriangleHe also directed the magazines The lightning bolt and Userda, as well as The Independent of Grace and the digital one EcoDiario.

Xavier Borràs, uncle of fellow journalists Enric Borràs (deputy editor of this newspaper) and Jordi Borràs, had journalism in his veins and lived it intensely. He always practiced it with rigor and honesty, even if it cost him more than one confrontation. He was a member of the Ramon Barnils Group of Journalists, was concerned about the health of the profession in the context of current technological developments, and continued to cover current events and the situation of the profession until the very end, despite the effects of a fulminant cancer. He was also especially careful with language, was a diction teacher at the Institut del Teatre, and published several books of poems and novels such as Atomic Manduca, the last teak, Transfuturo and October looks black and the essay Joan Oliver as it is.

Strong-willed—irreducible, as those who knew him would say—Borràs was a man of clear and forceful convictions. He was always concerned about his country and nature, which led him to become active in numerous organizations such as the Catalan Ecological Movement, the Greens-Green Alternative, the Left Nationalists, Catalan Relief, Regrouping, the Catalan Integral Cooperative, the Catalan National Assembly, and the Francoist Dignity Commission, of which he was one of the founders.