Francesc Miralles
Son of a dressmaker and an erudite office worker, he was born in Barcelona on the 27th August 1968. After spending eight years in a religious school in la Ribera –just beside the Palau de la Música¡–, he attended high school at the extinguished academy ALMI and IES MONTSERRAT.
Despite his bad grades, he was accepted into the UAB’s faculty of Journalism, which he quited after four months. That the same year, he started to work as a waiter at LES PUCES DEL BARRI GÒTIC, a bar in the Gothic Quarter where he learned to play the piano.
In the following year, returning to the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, he started studying English Literature, which he combined with precarious language teacher jobs. After five years of being a sloth, he stal
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Cronológicamente, ambas estamos muy puestas de acuerdo desde antiguo: más de cuarenta años ya de coincidir en todas partes: en las mismas calles, y cines y teatros y restaurantes, en aquella facultad de Derecho donde ambas nos aburrimos tanto, en la misma playa de Malgrat, en el mismo periódico barcelonés de los primeros tanteos con la palabra, en los mismos cuerpos amados, en las mismas amistades que compartimos.
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