Ferran Sáez Mateu
Ferran Sáez Mateu es un escritor y profesor universitario español, especialista en Montaigne, sobre quién hizo la tesis doctoral y varios estudios y traducciones.
Ferran Sáez Mateu és un escriptor i professor universitari, especialista en Montaigne, sobre qui va fer la tesi doctoral i diversos estudis i traduccions.
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Abel Cutillas
Abel Cutillas (Vinaixa, 1976) és llicenciat en Història i doctor en Filosofia per la UB. És autor del llibre d’aforismes Viure mata (Edicions Fonoll, 2006) i de Pensar l’art (Angle Editorial, 2006), La mort de Miquel Bauçà (Edicions Fonoll, 2009) i Per una literatura capitalista (Acontravent, 2009). Després d'haver treballat com a llibreter, Abel Cutillas obrí la Llibreria Calders l'any 2014 juntament amb la periodista Isabel Sucunza, projecte que abandonà el 2020 per a dedicar-se completament a l'escriptura. A Desànim del lucre (2016) deslegitima l'hegemonia del pensament de Theodor Adorno en la segona meitat del segle XX i la cultura «antiil·lustrada», decadent i allunyada de la vida real que se'n deriva.
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Alessandro Baricco
Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer, born at Torino in 1958. He's the author of several works, including the novels Lands of Glass (Selezione Campiello Award and Prix Médicis Étranger), Ocean Sea (Viareggio Prize), Silk, City, Emmaus or Mr. Gwyn, among others.
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He is also the author of the majestic rewrite of Homer’s Iliad, the theatrical monologue Novecento, the essays Next: On Globalization and the World to Come or The Game.
Baricco hosted the book program "Pickwick" for Rai Tre, which, according to Claudio Paglieri, "invited Italians to rediscover the pleasure of reading." In 1994, he founded a school of "writing techniques" in Turin called Holden (as a tribute to Salinger), which, under his direction, has been a resounding success. Si -
Miguel Delibes
Miguel Delibes Setién was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with the Generation of '36 movement. From 1975 until his death, he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, where he occupied letter "e" seat. Educated in commerce, he began his career as a cartoonist and columnist. He later became the editor for the regional newspaper El Norte de Castilla before gradually devoting himself exclusively to writing novels.
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He was a connoisseur of the flora and fauna of Castile and was passionate about hunting and the countryside. These were common themes in his writing, and he often wrote from the perspective of a city-dweller who remained connected with the rural world.
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Franz Kafka
Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis " (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.
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Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.
His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).
Despite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of -
Martin Amis
Martin Amis was an English novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His works included the novels Money, London Fields and The Information.
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The Guardian writes that "all his critics have noted what Kingsley Amis [his father] complained of as a 'terrible compulsive vividness in his style... that constant demonstrating of his command of English'; and it's true that the Amis-ness of Amis will be recognisable in any piece before he reaches his first full stop."
Amis's raw material is what he sees as the absurdity of the postmodern condition with its grotesque caricatures. He has thus sometimes been portrayed as the undisputed master of what the New York Times has called "the new unpleasantness." -
Javier Cercas
Javier Cercas Mena (Ibahernando, provincia de Caceres, 1962) es un escritor y traductor español.
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Hijo de un veterinario rural, cuando contaba cuatro años, en 1966 su familia se trasladó a Tarragona, y allí estudió con los jesuitas. Es primo carnal del político Alejandro Cercas. A los quince años la lectura de Jorge Luis Borges le inclinó para siempre a la escritura. En 1985 se licenció en Filología Hispánica en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona y más tarde se doctoró. Trabajó durante dos años en la Universidad de Illinois en Urbana; mientras estaba allí se publicó su primera novela, El móvil, y compuso su segunda novela; desde 1989 es profesor de literatura española en la Universidad de Girona. Está casado y tiene un hijo. Se transformó e -
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespr -
Michael McDowell
Michael McDowell is a prolific horror writer who has distinguished himself with a varied body of work within the genre. He was born in Enterprise, Alabama, in 1950 and died of AIDS-related illness in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1999.
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His first horror novel, The Amulet, relates the tragedies that befall various individuals who come in possession of a supernatural pendant in a small town.
In McDowell's second novel, Cold Moon Over Babylon, a murdered woman's corpse is dispatched into a river, but her spirit roams the land, and in the evening hours it seeks revenge on her killer even as he plots the demise of her surviving relatives.
Don D'Ammassa, writing in the St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, noted that McDowell's ability to -
Carlo Rovelli
Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist and writer who has worked in Italy and the USA, and currently works in France. His work is mainly in the field of quantum gravity, where he is among the founders of the loop quantum gravity theory. He has also worked in the history and philosophy of science. He collaborates regularly with several Italian newspapers, in particular the cultural supplements of Il Sole 24 Ore and La Repubblica.
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Edward Carey
Edward Carey is a writer and illustrator who was born in North Walsham, Norfolk, England, during an April snowstorm. Like his father and his grandfather, both officers in the Royal Navy, he attended Pangbourne Nautical College, where the closest he came to following his family calling was playing Captain Andy in the school’s production of Showboat. Afterwards he joined the National Youth Theatre and studied drama at Hull University.
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He has written plays for the National Theatre of Romania and the Vilnius Small State Theatre, Lithuania. In England his plays and adaptations have been performed at the Young Vic Studio, the Battersea Arts Centre, and the Royal Opera House Studio. He has collaborated on a shadow puppet production of Macbeth in Ma -
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Agustín Fernández Mallo
Agustín Fernández Mallo (A Coruña, 1967) es un físico y escritor español afincado en Palma de Mallorca. Es uno de los miembros más destacados de la llamada Generación Nocilla, Generación Mutante o Afterpop, cuya denominación más popular procede del título de una serie de sus novelas.
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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han, also spelled Pyŏng-ch'ŏl Han (born 1959 in Seoul), is a German author, cultural theorist, and Professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) in Berlin, Germany.
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Byung-Chul Han studied metallurgy in Korea before he moved to Germany in the 1980s to study Philosophy, German Literature and Catholic theology in Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich. He received his doctoral degree at Freiburg with a dissertation on Martin Heidegger in 1994.
In 2000, he joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of Basel, where he completed his Habilitation. In 2010 he became a faculty member at the HfG Karlsruhe, where his areas of interest were philosophy of the 18th, 19th and 20th century, ethics, social philosophy, phenomenology, cult -
Pep Coll
Josep Coll i Martí (Pessonada, 16 d'octubre de 1949), més conegut com a Pep Coll, és un escriptor català. Autor prolífic, ha conreat tots els gèneres literaris i, àdhuc, periodístics (col·labora amb els diaris Segre, El Periódico i la revista Descobrir Catalunya). El seu món vital i literari són els Pirineus, que ha convertit en un univers llegendari. Ha estat traduït al castellà i a l'èuskar.
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A més d'escriptor, ha estat professor de llengua i literatura catalanes, i és un gran amant de la muntanya. -
Lola López Mondéjar
Es psicoanalista y escritora. Conferenciante invitada en distintas universidades y asociaciones psicoanalíticas españolas y extranjeras, ha publicado ensayos y obras de ficción. Entre las últimas destacan las novelas Miamor desgraciado, La primera vez queno te quiero, Cada noche, cada noche, y los libros de relatos El pensamientomudo de los peces, Lazos de sangre y Qué mundo tan maravilloso. En Anagrama ha publicado Invulnerablese invertebrados: «Ensayo de un pensamiento riguroso y una coherencia admirables, de una escritura que se desenvuelve con facilidad, elocuente, asistida por referencias y citas indispensables» (Javier Sáez de Ibarra, Zenda); «Bebe de la que para mí es sin duda la tradición psicoanalítica más rica, aquella que se entr
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Pablo d'Ors
Pablo d’Ors (Madrid, 1963) es sacerdote, escritor y fundador de la red de meditadores Amigos del desierto, así como de Tabor, un proyecto de monacato secular. Su obra literaria, agrupada en trilogías y en proceso de reedición por parte de Galaxia Gutenberg, ha sido traducida al italiano, alemán, portugués, inglés, francés, polaco y catalán. Ha publicado once títulos: una colección de relatos, dos ensayos y ocho novelas. Su aclamada Biografía del silencio ha superado los 150.000 ejemplares, convirtiéndose en un auténtico hito del ensayo contemporáneo. Su última novela, Entusiasmo, ha consolidado su trayectoria en el panorama de las narrativas hispánicas. El estupor y la maravilla, editado originalmente en el 2007, es su novela más contemplat
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Yishai Sarid
Yishai Sarid (Hebrew: ישי שריד) is an Israeli author, novelist and lawyer. His second book, Limassol, became an international best-seller. His fourth book, The Third, became a major subject of public and literary discussion in Israel and won the Bernstein literary award. Sarid works full-time as an attorney, formerly as a public prosecutor and now privately.
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Sergi Pàmies
Sergi Pàmies i Bertran (París, 1960) es un narrador francès en llengua catalana. Traductor de llibres i escriptor d'articles de premsa, actualment al diari La Vanguardia.
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És fill de Teresa Pàmies i Gregorio López Raimundo. Ha escrit diversos contes i novel·les. Ha traduït obres de Guillaume Apollinaire, Agota Kristof, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Frédéric Beigbeder, Amélie Nothomb i Daniel Pennac.
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Joan-Lluís Lluís
Joan-Lluís Lluís (Perpinyà, 29 de juny de 1963) és un escriptor i periodista català, que redacta al diari electrònic VilaWeb i a la revista digital Esguard, així com manté una crònica titulada «A cremallengües» al setmanari Presència. Antigament havia treballat al diari El Punt i va tenir a L'Avenç la crònica «Traient la pols» sobre literatura catalana popular dels inicis del segle XX. També ha escrit textos de cançons, sobretot per al grup Blues de Picolat però també per al Casellas Sextet Folk, Sol i Serena i Joanjo Bosk.
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Abel Cutillas
Abel Cutillas (Vinaixa, 1976) és llicenciat en Història i doctor en Filosofia per la UB. És autor del llibre d’aforismes Viure mata (Edicions Fonoll, 2006) i de Pensar l’art (Angle Editorial, 2006), La mort de Miquel Bauçà (Edicions Fonoll, 2009) i Per una literatura capitalista (Acontravent, 2009). Després d'haver treballat com a llibreter, Abel Cutillas obrí la Llibreria Calders l'any 2014 juntament amb la periodista Isabel Sucunza, projecte que abandonà el 2020 per a dedicar-se completament a l'escriptura. A Desànim del lucre (2016) deslegitima l'hegemonia del pensament de Theodor Adorno en la segona meitat del segle XX i la cultura «antiil·lustrada», decadent i allunyada de la vida real que se'n deriva.
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Damià Bardera
Damià Bardera i Poch (Viladamat, 1982) és un escriptor i assagista català.
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Ha publicat dotze llibres. Un de poesia: El penúltim vòmit (2008); vuit reculls de contes: I alguns contes per llegir-los d'amagat (2010), Fauna animal (2011), Els homes del sac (2012), Els nens del sac (2013), Contes de propina (2014), Nens de llet (2016), Un circ al pati de casa (2019) i Bèsties de companyia (2022); una novel·la: Viladelsac (2015) i dos assajos: Mediterròniament. La catalanitat emocional (Biblioteca del Núvol, 2013), escrit en col·laboració amb Eudald Espluga, i L'home del sac: arquetip modern del no-res (Emboscall, 2015). -
Marta Orriols
Marta Orriols Balaguer (Sabadell, 1975), historiadora de l’art de formació, viu i treballa a Barcelona i té dos fills. En el camp de l’escriptura ha estudiat guió cinematogràfic a l’escola de cinema Bande à Part i escriptura creativa a l’Escola d’Escriptura de l’Ateneu Barcelonès. És autora del blog No puc dormir, treballa ocasionalment com a lectora editorial i ha participat en l’edició del llibre Objeto de amor, d’Edna O’Brien (Lumen, 2018), encarregant-se de la tria dels contes que configuren el volum. Ha col·laborat al digital de cultura Núvol i actualment la podeu llegir al portal de cultura Catorze, on publica cròniques literàries i culturals. Amb el seu primer llibre, Anatomia de les distàncies curtes (Periscopi, 2016), va aconseguir
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Irene Solà
Irene Solà is a Spanish writer and an artist. She has exhibited her work at the CCCB in Barcelona and the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Her first book of poems Bèstia won the 2012 Amadeu Oller Prize and Dikes novel, the 2017 Documenta Prize.
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Anna Punsoda
Anna Punsoda (Concabella, 1985) és una periodista i escriptora catalana. Llicenciada en periodisme (URL) i en filosofia (UB). Va cursar el màster de «Filosofia i Estudis clàssics» a la UB, on va presentar la seva tesina El pensament social i polític de Joan Maragall -becada per la Fundació Joan Maragall. Actualment és professora i traductora de l'alemany, col·labora en diversos mitjans de comunicació com a crítica d'assaig i és ponent de Filosofia de l'Ateneu Barcelonès. L’any 2017 va impulsar La Llança, el suplement cultural d’El Nacional.cat. Ha publicat la novel·la Els llits dels altres (Amsterdam, 2018), guardonada amb el premi Roc Boronat, i l'assaig La luxúria (Fragmenta, 2020), dins la sèrie «Pecats capitals».
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Manel Vidal Boix
Manel Vidal Boix (Salt, 28 de juliol de 1989) és un guionista i humorista que col·labora en diversos programes de la ràdio catalana, com La sotana o La competència.
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