Flavia Company

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Flavia Company (* 1963 in Buenos Aires ) is a Spanish-speaking author , translator and literary critic who also publishes in Catalan . She has taught at various writing workshops , published essays , short stories, poems and novels.

Life

Flavia Company Navau was born in Buenos Aires in Argentina in 1963 . She moved to Spain with her parents from Catalonia and has had Spanish nationality since 1973.

She studied Spanish philology at the Universidad de Barcelona and piano at the Conservatorio Superior de Música del Liceu. She researched Maria as the patron saint of fishermen and played the clarinet in a band of the Amposta La Lira Ampostina.

In 1990 she moved to Sant Carles de la Ràpita , a small town of 10,000 inhabitants in southern Catalonia, around 200 km from Barcelona . There she published a book of prose and poetry in Catalan Retrat de la Ràpita , ( Retrato de La Ràpita ), which was dedicated to her hometown and illustrated by the painter Rosa Querol .

Since 1995 she has lived in both Sant Carles de la Ràpita and Barcelona. From 1992 to 1993 she offered a literary workshop for children from six to fourteen years of age as well as for adults every Friday of the school year. In 1998 she also led literary workshops for adults in Barcelona. In Sant Carles de la Ràpita she worked as a literary critic for La Vanguardia , later for Diario 16 , El Periódico de Catalunya and Avui-aún.

In 1999 she published the novella Dame Placer , which was translated into Portuguese, French and Dutch, and has since been recognized throughout Europe as a prose writer. As a translator she has a. a. translated the works of the following colleagues into Spanish: Fleur Jaeggy , Luigi Malerba , Josef Paul Hodin and Italo Svevo . She is also the director of a cultural program on Catalan television. Before that, she worked as a director, screenwriter and presenter for Barcelona Televisió and other television channels. Her novel The Island of Last Truth was received favorably by German-language critics in 2011.

plant

  • Querida Nélida . Barcelona, ​​Montesinos Editor, SA 1987. (novel)
  • Fuga y contrapuntos . Barcelona, ​​Montesinos Editor, SA 1989. (Novel)
  • Círculos en acíbar . Barcelona, ​​Montesinos Editor, SA 1992. (novel)
  • Viatges subterranis . Tarragona, El Mèdol, Edicions 1993. (Short stories)
  • "Enid Blyton": un fenómeno sociológico . Cuadernos de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil CLIJ may 1993, nº 50, pp. 48-54.
  • La sombra paterna . Cuadernos de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil CLIJ ene 1994, nº 57, pp. 44-48.
  • Los talleres de la imagination . Cuadernos de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil CLIJ sep 1994, nº 64, pp. 32-36.
  • Llum de gel . Tarragona, El Mèdol, Edicions 1996. (novel)
  • Retrat de la Ràpita . Tarragona, Ayuntamiento de Sant Carles de la Ràpita 1996. Prose poética.
  • Saurios en el asfalto . Barcelona, ​​Muchnik Editores, SA 1997. (novel)
  • Viajes subterráneos . Vitoria, Bassarai Ediciones 1997. (short stories)
  • Luz de hielo . Vitoria, Bassarai Ediciones 1998. (novel)
  • Ni tu, ni jo, ni ningú . Barcelona, ​​Península. Edicions 62 1998. (novel)
  • Lady placer . Barcelona, ​​Emecé Editores España, SA 1999. (Novel)
  • Carta al padre . Cuento. En: Hijas y padres. Barcelona, ​​Martínez Roca 1999, pp. 31-39. (Stories)
  • Melalcor . Barcelona, ​​Edicions 62 SA 2000. (novel)
  • El llibre magic . Barcelona, ​​Cruïlla 2001. (novel)
  • Trastornos literarios . Barcelona, ​​Plaza y Janés 2002.
  • Género de punto . Barcelona, ​​El Aleph 2002. (short stories)
  • L'illa animal . Barcelona, ​​Cruïlla 2002. (novel)
  • El missatge secret . Barcelona, ​​Cruïlla 2004. (novel)
  • Negoci rodó . Barcelona, ​​Columna Edicions 2005. (novel)
  • La Mitad Sombria . SL DVD EDICIONES, Barcelona 2006.
  • L 'espai desconegut . Cruilla, Barcelona 2006.
  • Con la soga al cuello . Páginas de Espuma, Madrid 2009
  • La isla de la ultima verdad . Lumen, Barcelona 2011.
in German translation

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. http://www.imdb.de/title/tt0486682/