Biografia de juan goytisolo (1931-)

  • Juan Goytisolo Gay was a Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist.
  • Juan Goytisolo Gay (6 January 1931 – 4 June 2017) was a Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist.
  • The broad contours of Goytisolo's life are well known.

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    Juan Goytisolo

    Spanish writer, poet and novelist

    In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Goytisolo and the second or maternal family name is Gay.

    For decades, my name was more popular in police stations than bookshops,
    and I do not mean to compliment the literary awareness of Spanish policemen.[2]

    Juan Goytisolo

    Juan Goytisolo Gay (6 January 1931 – 4 June 2017) was a Spanishpoet, essayist, and novelist. He lived in Marrakesh from 1997 until his death in 2017. He was considered Spain's greatest living writer at the beginning of the 21st century, yet he had lived abroad since the 1950s. On 24 November 2014 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world.

    Background

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    Juan Goytisolo was born to an upper class family. He claimed that this level of status, accompanied by the cruelties of his great-grandfather and the miserliness of his grandfather (discovered through the

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    Goytisolo, Juan 1931–

    PERSONAL:

    Born January 5, 1931, in Barcelona, Spain; immigrated to France, 1957. Ethnicity: Hispanic. Education: Attended University of Barcelona and University of Madrid, 1948-52.

    ADDRESSES:

    Home—Marrakesh, Morocco.

    CAREER:

    Writer and educator. Worked as reporter in Cuba, 1965; associated with Gallimard Publishing Co., Paris, France. Visiting professor at universities in the United States. Starred as han själv in Jean-Luc Godard's bio, Notre Musique.

    AWARDS, HONORS:

    Numerous awards for Juegos de manos; Premio Europalia, 1985.

    WRITINGS:

    NOVELS

    Juegos dem manos, Destino (Barcelona, Spain), 1954, 4th edition, 1969, translation bygd John Rust published as The ung Assassins, Knopf (New York, NY), 1959.

    Duelo en el paraíso, Planeta (Barcelona, Spain), 1955, reprinted, Destino (Barcelona, Spain), 1981, translation bygd Christine Brooke-Rose published as Children of Chaos, MacGibbon & Kee (London, England), 1958.

    La Isla, Seix Barral

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    Barcelona, España, 1931 - Marrakech, Marruecos , 2017

    He started to study Law, but gave it up, travelled, was arrested for political reasons and in 1956 settled in Paris, where he started work as literary adviser to the Gallimard publishing house. Between 1969 and 1975 he taught literature in universities in California, Boston and New York; he continued to lecture throughout his life. He created an extensive and varied body of work, including essays and fiction. From 1963 until after Franco's death, his work was banned in Spain by the regime's censorship. Genres in which he worked include reporting, travel books and memoires. He lived in Marrakesh, Paris, the USA and Spain. He received several international awards, most notably the Premio de Ensayo y Poesía Octavio Paz (2002) and the Premio Juan Rulfo (2004). In 2007, the library of the Cervantes Institute in Tangiers was named after him. He was awarded the Premio Cervantes in 2014.

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