Max Roqueta (Argelliers, December 8, 1908 – June 22, 2005) was one of the most famous contemporary Occitan writers. A physician, he was also an activist (he had been president of the Institut d'Estudis Occitans from 1952 to 1957).
Works Prose Secrèt de l’èrba (1934) Sòmnis dau matin (1940) Sòmnis de la nuòch (1942) L’Ataüt d’Arnautz Daniel (1949) La Pietat dau matin (1963) Vèrd Paradís (1961) Vèrd Paradís II (1974) Lo Maucòr de l'unicòrn (1992) D'aicí mil ans de lutz (1995)
Poetry Lo Mètge de Cucunhan (1958) Lo Manit e los encants (1996) Tota la sabla de la mar (1997) Lo Corbatàs roge (1997)
References
External links a website devoted to Max Rouquette J-F. Brun's pages about Occitan literature Montpellier University's Servici de la lenga occitana Exhibition Max Rouquette Obituary in Libération