Joan-Daniel Bezsonoff

Joan-Daniel Bezsonoff Setmana del llibre en català (Week of the Catalan Book) in Sant Cugat del Vallès , 2009

Joan-Daniel Bezsonoff i Montalat (born September 15, 1963 in Perpignan , France ) is a French- North Catalan linguist , journalist , writer and professor of Catalan at the University of Perpignan .

life and work

Bezsonoff was a Catalan teacher in Perpignan with a degree in French, Spanish and Catalan philology. He has written eight novels, all in Catalan. The first was Les rambles de Saigon (In the streets of Saigon, 1996), followed by La revolta dels geperuts (The revolt of the humpbacked, 1999) and La presonera d'Alger (The prisoners of Algiers, 2002). However, it was La guerra dels cornuts (The War of the Deceived, 2003), which was awarded the Just Manuel Casero Prize and the Méditerranée Roussillon Prize, and Les amnèsies de Déu (The Gaps in God's Memory, 2005), which was awarded the Salambó Prize and the Joan Crexells Prize, which earned him recognition from critics and fellow writers. Always striving to revive the Roussillon Catalan , his stories are based on extensive documentation and precise historical knowledge of the milieu in which they are set. His last book Els taxistes del tsar (The Tsar's Taxi Drivers ) is a family chronicle in which the figure of the grandfather and ancient Russia play an important role and in which he describes the contradictions that arise when one is between three Nations stands: the Russian, the French and the Catalan.

In addition to Catalan, Bezsonoff also advocates the Occitan language . Bezsonoff also taught at the Universitat Catalana d'Estiu (Summer University) in Prades . He writes regularly for the magazines El Periódico de Catalunya , El Temps and L'Avenç .

Awards

• 2001: Premi Omnium Catalunya Nord (today Premi Ramon Juncosa) for Les dones de paper .
• 2003: Premi de novel·la curta Just Manuel Casero for La guerra dels cornuts .
• 2004: Premi Méditerranée Roussillon for La guerra dels cornuts .
• 2005: Premi Salambó, Premi Joan Crexells, Premi Maria Àngels Anglada for Les amnèsies de Déu , a family story from Vallespir during the Second World War.
• 2008: Finalist of the Premi Salambó for Els taxistes del tsar .
• 2010: Premi Lletra d'Or 2010 for Una educació francesa .
• 2012: Premi Setè Cel 2010 for La melancolia dels officials

Works

All works are written in Catalan.

• Els ànecs del Mekong. 1990, ISBN 2-905828-64-1 .
• Les Rambles de Saigon. 1996, ISBN 2-905828-78-1 .
• Les lletres d'amor no serveixen de res. 1997, ISBN 2-905828-94-3 .
• La revolta dels geperuts. 1998, ISBN 2-912966-13-2 .
• Les dones de paper. 2001, ISBN 2-912966-46-9 .
• La presonera d'Alger. 2002, ISBN 84-7596-933-X .
• La Guerra dels Cornuts. 2004, ISBN 84-9787-025-5 .
  • French edition: La guerre des cocus. Balzac éditeur, Baixas 2006.
• Les amnèsies de Déu. 2005, ISBN 84-9787-134-0 .
• Els taxistes del tsar. 2007, ISBN 978-84-9787-222-5 .
  • Spanish edition: Los taxistas del zar. Barril i Barral, Barcelona, ​​2012.
• Una educació francesa. 2009, ISBN 978-84-88839-32-9 .
• Un país de butxaca. 2010, ISBN 978-2-905828-64-4 .
• La melancolia dels oficials. 2011, ISBN 978-84-9787-736-7 .
• Les meues universitats. L'Avenç, Barcelona 2012, ISBN 978-84-88839-65-7 .
• Matar De Gaulle . 2014.
• Guia sentimental de Perpinyà . 2015, ISBN 978-84-9809-298-1 .

literature

• Article: Joan-Daniel Bezsonoff i Montalat. In: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana .
• Antoni Puigverd: Un catalán llamado Bezsonof. In: El País . April 7, 2004.
• Jordi Puntí: Sóc francès, però m'estic curant. In: El País. September 15, 2005.
• Lluis Muntada: El bust de Janus. In: L'Avenc. No. 349, 2009, pp. 63-65. ( Online text, English: The Bust of Janus )

Web links

Commons : Joan-Daniel Bezsonoff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Joan-Daniel Bezsonoff in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
• Joan-Daniel Bezsonoff website on LletrA , Catalan literature online
• Website about Joan-Daniel Bezsonoff on corpus literari

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Review: Joan Miquel Touron: Le Russe blanc de Rigardà ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Association des Cadres Catalans de Toulouse (French, accessed May 20, 2013).