Joan Safont Plumed

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Joan Safont Plumed is a journalist and writer. Graduated in Law at Pompeu Fabra University, he also has a Master’s Degree in Journalism and Advanced Journalism at the Faculty of Blanquerna Communication, Ramon Llull University. Recently, he holds a PhD at the University of Girona, with the thesis L’eminència grisa: Biografia, singularitat i influència d’Amadeu Hurtado i Miró (1875-1936). He is a documentary screenwriter, columnist for Vilaweb and a contributor to the TV program Més 3/24. He writes regularly in L’Avenç, Revista de Catalunya i Valors. He also collaborates with the newspaper ARA, El Temps, El Nacional and Crític. Since his first book, Per França i Anglaterra, la Primera Guerra Mundial dels aliadòfils catalans (2012), he has worked on journalism, literature, politics and catalan society between the First World War and the Civil War. He is as well the author of Capitans del Comerç explicats pels seus fills (2016), Sabotatge contra Franco. Episodis d’oposició dels que havien guanyat la guerra (2017) i PEN Català: un exemple de diplomàcia cultural (2018). Ultimately, he is a collaborative professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).