Amat-Piniella settled temporarily in Sant Julià de Lòria (Andorra), where he completed Llunyanies (Distances), the collection of poems he had begun in Mauthausen and written on the paper of cement sacks. He also completed the first draft of his major work, K.L. Reich, a semi-autobiographical novel drawing on his experiences in the concentration camp. As a result of the censorship under the Franco regime, this work would remain unpublished until 1963. Return to Catalonia In 1948, he decided to end his exile and re-join his wife in Barcelona. Tragically, she was to die at the age of 37 in 1949, leaving behind their three-year-old son, Marcel. Following several unsuccessful business ventures, Amat-Piniella found employment as an accountant. In addition to working full-time, he managed to write four more novels during the 1950s and 1960s. However, as the author himself was to confess in an interview in 1966: “I don’t believe any of my novels achieved the power and authenticity of K.L. Reich”. He also co-founded, along with other deportees, the Amical de Mauthausen association in Barcelona in 1962. The Amical remained clandestine until it was legalised in 1978 with the end of Franco’s dictatorship. Joaquim Amat-Piniella died on 3 August 1974 in the Bellvitge Hospital in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, near Barcelona. Works Narrative Retaule en gris. Alzira: Bromera, 2012. Novels El casino dels senyors. Barcelona: Albertí Editor, 1956 / Muro: Ensiola, 2013. Roda de solitaris. Barcelona: Albertí Editor, 1957 / Muro: Ensiola, 2010. La pau a casa. Barcelona: Albertí Editor, 1959 / Muro: Ensiola, 2013. K. L. Reich. Barcelona: Club Editor, 1963; 2006; 2013 / Barcelona: Edicions 62, 2001; 2005; 2010. La ribera deserta. Barcelona: Alfaguara, 1966 / Muro: Ensiola, 2013. La clau de volta. Barcelona: Club Editor, 2013. Prose Ombres al calidoscopi. Manresa: Impremta Boixeda-Edicions Ara, 1933. Poems Les llunyanies, poemes de l'exili (1940-1946). Barcelona: Columa-L'Albí, 1999. Translations English: K. L. Reich. Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University, 2014. (Translated by Robert Finley and Marta Marín-Dòmine) German: K. L. Reich. Viena: Czernin Verlag, 2016. (Translated by Kirsten Brandt) Spanish: K. L. Reich, Miles de españoles en los campos de Hitler. Barcelona: Seix-Barral, 1963. (Translated by Baltasar Porcel) K. L. Reich. Barcelona: El Aleph, 2002; 2009 (ebook). (1946 Manuscript. Translated byAntonio Padilla) References External links Website devoted to Amat-Piniella (in Catalan) The Association of Catalan Language Writers webpage entry on Amat-Piniella Catalan-language writers Politicians from Catalonia 1913 births 1974 deaths People from