José Corredor-Matheos is a qualified lawyer and directed the supplements of the Espasa Encyclopedia and the Catalan Grand Larousse Encyclopedia. He was art consultant at the Society of Architects of Catalonia and editor-in-chief of Cuadernos de Arquitectura, art critic, founder and first president of the Catalan Association of Art Critics and president of Catalonia’s autonomous section of the Society of Authors. He is a corresponding member of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He has won several awards and published twelve poetry collections and over forty books on art. He was awarded the Boscan Poetry Prize in 1961. 2005 National Literature Award in Poetry.