According to what Ortega y Gasset told Josep Pla, and what the latter wrote in 1964 when Josep Carner was already old (he died in 1970), "The Catalan who has written best in Catalan of all time is José Carner"Carner in Spanish? Yes, of course. In fact, due to the circumstances of his exile, one of his most emblematic works, the great poem Nabi, The poem, consisting of 1,446 verses, was first published in Spanish in 1940. It was not a translation, but the author's own version, written while he was living in Mexico for six years before settling permanently in Brussels.