Josep Carles Laínez (born 1970) is a Spanish writer who lives in Valencia, Spain and Encamp, Andorra. A graduate of the University of Valencia in Catalan and Spanish Philology and Audio-visual Communication, his main interest is in European minority languages, and he has published original books and/or articles in Catalan, English, Spanish, Occitan, Aragonese and Asturian. He is currently the Editor-in-chief of the literary-philosophical quarterly journal Debats. In his book of poetry Música junto al río (Music by the River, 2001), he uses a dialectal Valencian-Aragonese from the region of his parents. His book La piedra ente la ñeve (The Stone in the Snow, 2010) is notable as the first Latter-day Saint-related book published in Asturian and the first to use the Deseret alphabet for a language other than English. He has also published a translation of aphorisms from the Asturian into the Spanish language (Ene marginalia, 2003). Laínez is a columnist for the Andorran newspaper El Periòdic d'Andorra, and has been a visiting professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, University of Puerto Rico, Hofstra University of New York and Komazawa University of Tokyo. Publications In Spanish Poetry Exotica martyria, Valencia: Ojuebuey, 1991 Música junto al río, Valencia: Llambert Palmart, 2001. Fiction Alma, Valencia: Ediciones de la Mirada, 1998. Una noche más, Valencia: Llambert Palmart, 2002. Non-Fiction La tumba de Leónidas, Barcelona: Áltera, 2006. Aquí la noche tiene el nombre de Valeria, Valencia: Institució Alfons el Magnànim, 2007. In Catalan Poetry Dionysiaka, Alzira: Germania, 1995 Anxia, Alzira: Bromera, 2001 Drama Berlín, Valencia: Llambert Palmart, 2001. In Asturian Poetry La piedra ente la ñeve, Uviéu: Trabe, 2010. Drama Elsa metálico, Uviéu: Academia Llingua Asturiana, 1998. Thule, Uviéu: Academia Llingua Asturiana, 2010. In Aragonese Poetry En o gudrón espigol xuto, Teruel: Sur Edizions, 1991. Aire de liloileras: (peruigilium veneris), Uesca: Consello d'a Fabla Aragonesa, 1992. A besita de l'ánchel, Uesca: Consello d'a Fabla Aragonesa, 1994. Bel diya, Uesca: Consello d'a Fabla Aragonesa, 1998. References Bibliography Ballester Añón, Rafael, “Poetas de los noventa”, in PosData, Levante-EMV (Valencia, December 1992). Barrero, Miguel, “Josep Carles Laínez medita nun llibru sobre l’espíritu de Castiella”, in Les Noticies, 573 (February 2008), p. 17. Bellveser, Ricardo, Vita Nuova. Antología de escritores valencianos en el fin de siglo, Valencia: Ajuntament de València, 1993, pp. 231, 236. Bolado García, Xosé, “El Surdimientu. El Teatru”, in RAMOS CORRADA, Miguel (coord.), Historia de la Lliteratura Asturiana, Oviedo: Academia de la