Quim Torra

Quick Facts

Full Name	Quim Torra
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Dec 28, 1962(1962-12-28)
Age	62
Birthplace	Llanes
Country	Spain
Birth City	Asturias
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Quim Torra Biography

Quim Torra is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on December 28, 1962 in Llanes, Asturias, Spain. Torra was an executive at Winterthur Group, a multi-national insurance company for almost twenty years, including two years in its offices in Canton of Zurich, Switzerland. While in Switzerland, Torra began researching EugeniXammar, a Catalan journalist, who was working for the United Nations. This ignited a passion for Catalan journalism in the 1920s and 1930s. AXA had taken over Winterthur Torra, but he decided to return to Catalonia and devote himself to journalism.

Torra established A Contra Vent Editors in 2008. This publisher specializes in humorous and literary journalism. It focuses on the revival and preservation of Catalonia’s journalistic and literary tradition from the 1920s and 1930s. Torra is the author of many books about Catalonia’s history, journalism, and biographies. In 2009, he was awarded the “Carles Rahola” award for Viatge Involuntari A la Catalunya Improbable. This essay, which mixes fiction and fact, relates the lives of several Catalan journalists during Spain’s Second Republic. He has also contributed articles to the Ara, El Punt Avui and El Temps newspapers.

The tone and content of some articles written by Torra in 2012 criticizing anti-Catalanism and Spain have elicited strong criticism from numerous sectors. Critics have accused Torra of being xenophobic and a supremacist. In a digital opinion article, he made a metaphor referring to people who live in Catalonia but reject Catalan-nationalism and culture as “beasts” or “scavengers, vipers, hyenas”, who have “a little bump in their DNA chain”. In addition, several tweets from 2012 that he later removed included sentences like “Spaniards only know how to plunder” and “Spaniards in Catalonia are like energy – they transform themselves but do not disappear”.

Torra is a member of the pro-Catalan independence Òmnium Cultural (OC), of which he was vice-president from 2013 to 2015, and Assemblea Nacional Catalana (ANC). He was president of the pro-independence Sobirania i Justícia from 2010 to 2011 and a member of the permanent council of the ANC in 2012. In 2011 Torra and lawyer Jordi Cortada filed a lawsuit before the European Court of Human Rights against the Constitutional Court’s re-writing of the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia. When the OC president, Muriel Casals i Couturier, was chosen as a candidate for the 2015 Catalan regional election Torra was appointed as president in July 2015, serving until December 2015 when he was replaced by Jordi Cuixart.

Torra graduated from the Autonomous University of Barcelona with a law degree in 1985 after he joined it in 1980. Later, his parents returned to Santa Coloma de Farners, where his father was a councillor in the municipality of

1991. His widowed mother is still there.

Quim Torra Net Worth

Quim Torra is one of the richest Journalist from Spain. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Quim Torra 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Torra was born 28 December 1962 in Blanes (a municipality in the Province Girona, north-eastern Catalonia) (Spain). He is the third child of four (three boys, one girl). His family was originally from Santa Coloma de Farners. They moved to Blanes, where Quim Torra (also known as Quim) worked as an engineer at Sociedad Anonima de Fibras Artificiales. After moving to Barcelona, Torra’s family became a SAFA manager. Torra attended St. Ignatius College in Barcelona, also known as Jesuites Sarria.

Joaquim Turra i Pl (born 28/12/62), also known as Quim Tora, is an Spanish journalist and lawyer from Catalonia. Torra is currently the President of the Government of Catalonia.

From September 2011 to 2015, during the mayorship of Xavier Trias, Torra was in charge of promoting the district of Ciutat Vella as director of Foment de Ciutat Vella, SA. In June 2012 he became director of the Born Centre de Cultura i Memòria but in September 2015, shortly after Ada Colau became mayor, he left the organistaion. He was appointed director of Revista de Catalunya in May 2015. He was director of the Generalitat’s Center for Contemporary Subject Studies from March 2016 to October 2017. He is currently working as a lawyer and is a member of the Bar Association of Barcelona.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Quim Torra Dating?

According to our records, Quim Torra married to Carola Miró. As of December 1, 2023, Quim Torra’s is not dating anyone.

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On 16 March 2020, he announced in a public appearance he was positive for COVID-19 during COVID-19 pandemic in Spain.

Facts & Trivia

Quim Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Spain. Quim Torra celebrates birthday on December 28 of every year.

On 3 January 2020 the JEC determined the execution of the TSJC sentence in regards of Torra’s electability as member of the Parliament of Catalonia, ruling Torra’s inhabilitation from his parliamentary seat. The JEC left open to interpretation if losing the seat would also entail the disqualification from the post of president of the regional government. Torra appealed again to the TS to clarify the JEC ruling, on whether the electoral authority actually had the authority to strip him of the parliamentary seat. The second appeal before the TS by Torra was turned down.

Top Facts about Quim Torra

1. Quim Torra was the 131st President of Catalonia.
2. He served as president from May 2018 to September 2020.
3. Torra is a pro-independence politician and activist.
4. He was born on December 28, 1962 in Blanes, Spain.
5. Torra is a lawyer by profession and a publisher by trade.
6. He is known for his strong Catalan nationalist views.
7. In January 2019, he faced charges of disobedience for refusing to remove separatist symbols from public buildings during an election campaign.
8. Torra’s presidency was marked by tensions with the Spanish government over Catalonia’s bid for independence.
9. He resigned as president after being barred from holding public office for disobedience charges.
10. Torra remains an influential figure in Catalan politics and continues to advocate for independence.