"Clementina Arderiu Voltas is surely one of the Catalan writers who has had the easiest and most difficult time leaving a work in the history of Catalan literature". With this forceful statement begins the profile that Marta Pessarrodona outlined the poet in the volume Donasses. Protagonists of modern Catalonia (Destination, 2006). Now that the fiftieth anniversary of Arderiu's death is being celebrated, it is worth asking what the reasons are for this contradictory situation – in the light and in the shadow at the same time – and trying to correct the wrong that has been done to his work, on which reductive judgments have weighed, for social and biographical reasons.

"Today is one of those days when it's quite a shock to have a full auditorium and see on screen the figures we are commemorating this year," said Eduard Escoffet, director of the Institution of Catalan Letters (ILC). "This year's commemorations honor three great names in Catalan literature: the poet Clementina Arderiu [Barcelona 1889-1976], whose name everyone knows, but who remains one of the great unknowns of our literature; the case of Blai Bonet [Santanyí, 1926-1997], about whom there are still many aspects we don't know, and Josep M. Castellet [Barcelona, ​​1926-2014], who did very important work as an editor." Fifty years after Arderiu's death. One hundred years after Bonet and Castellet's birth.