title: Joan de Sagarra
text: # Joan de Sagarra
  
  Joan de Sagarra i Devesa (born 8 January 1938) is a Catalan journalist and writer, son of the poet Josep Maria de Sagarra.
  
  ## Biography
  
  De Sagarra studied at the Institut d'Études Théâtrals of the Sorbonne, and when back in Barcelona he worked as a journalist for Tele/eXpres, El País and El Temps, among other publications. He still writes columns for La Vanguardia newspaper.
  
  He is thought to be the father of the concept of the Gauche Divine ("divine left"), a movement of leftist intellectuals and artists that spread through Barcelona in the 1960s and early 1970s. The majority of its members came from the well-to-do classes of the Catalan capital.
  
  