Jordi Galceran
Jordi Galceran Ferrer is a Spanish-Catalan playwright, screenwriter and translator, known internationally for his play "El mètode Grönholm" ("The Grönholm Method", 2003). He writes both in Catalan and Spanish.
Galceran studied Catalan Philology at the University of Barcelona and started to write theatrical plays in 1988. In 1995, with "Paraules encadenades" (Chains of words) he won the 20th Born Theatre Award, and in 1996, the Critic's Award Serra d'Or for best work in the Catalan language. His play "Dakota" (1995) received the Ignasi Iglesias award. Among the other Galceran plays: "Gaudí" (2002), "Carnaval" (2005), "Cancún" (2007).
"Killing Words", a 2003 film directed by Laura Mañá, is based on "Paraules encadenades". "Fragile", a film by J
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He wrote La Celestina , originally titled Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, in 1499. People see this description of a tragic love affair as the beginning of literary Renaissance of Spain. The author published anonymously but revealed his name and famous birthplace in an acrostic code at the beginning of the second edition in the year 1500. None of his contemporaries mention him, and we know of no other work.
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Natural de l'Aranyó, va estudiar batxillerat a Tàrrega fins a l'any 1935, en què anà a viure a Barcelona; la guerra civil espanyola estroncà, però, els seus estudis. L'any 1943 es casà i s'instal·là definitivament a Barcelona, concretament en un pis-despatx de Sant Gervasi-Galvany (carrer de Calvet, 9). Començà a escriure molt jove i la seva obra l'ha convertit no tan sols en l'escriptor més prolífic sinó també en una de les figures més importants d -
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Se trasladó a Madrid en 1950 y se doctoró en la Universidad de Madrid con la tesis Usos amorosos del XVIII en España. Ignacio Aldecoa, cuya obra estudiaría posteriormente, la introdujo en su círculo literario, donde conoció a Josefina Aldecoa, Alfonso Sastre, Juan Benet, Medardo Fraile, Jesús Fernández Santos y Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, con quien se casó en 1954. De esta manera se incluyó en la que sería conocida como la Generación del 55 o Generación de la Posguerra. -
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It deals with the adventures of a knight in the Byzantine Empire. Miguel de Cervantes in the book burning scene of Don Quixote considers it the best chivalry novel. Martorell was a chivalrous man and suffered an early death due to court intrigue, leading to a colleague, Martí Joan de Galba, finishing the novel.
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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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