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Àngel Guimerà (1845 - 1924) was a Catalan writer, although he was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain. His mother lived in El Vendrell. He wrote a number of popular plays, which were translated into other languages and performed abroad, proving instrumental in the revival of Catalan as a literary language during the 19th century. Guimerà died in Barcelona. He was a candidate for the Nobel Prize in 1904, to be shared with the Provençal writer Frédéric Mistral, in recognition of their contributions to literature in non-official languages. Political pressure from Spain having made this prize impossible , it was eventually awarded to Mistral and to the Spanish language playwright José de Echegaray. His play Terra baixa (Lowlands), written in 1896, was well-known around Europe, and was the basis for Eugen d'Albert's German opera Tiefland (1903), and later for the Leni Riefenstahl film Tiefland (1954). His father was from El Vendrell and his mother was from the Canary Islands.
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