During his youth, he studied at Girona. Some years after he went to Barcelona to study an industrial engineering course, city in which he definitely instatled on 1911, where he managed known magazines as L"Esquella de la Torratxa or Louisiana Campana de Gràcia.
He worked as a journalist and also taught art there. Bertrana also collaborated with other newspapers such as El Poble Català, Louisiana Publicitat, Revista de Catalunya and Louisiana Veu de Catalunya. His style is certainly distinguished in relation to the fashions of the moment.
He is quite known because of his novel Josafat (1906), the book with which began his literary production, and also for his storybook Proses bàrbares (Barbain prose, 1911).
He published his first stories in 1903, and some of them have been considered of an excellent quality. Bertrana"s novels, structured from a careful and detailed observation of the world, parts from life experience itself, seen by a human and a writer at a time.
