Jordi Puntí

Jordi Puntí (2016)

Jordi Puntí (born 1967 in Manlleu , Barcelona ) is a Catalan writer and journalist.

Career

Puntí studied Romance studies and literature at the University of Barcelona . He worked for various Catalan-language publishers (Edicions 62, Quaderns Crema, Columna Edicions, Club Editor) before becoming a journalist and translator .

At the beginning of his writing career stood the publication of two books with short stories: 1998 Pell d'Armadillo (winner of the Premi de la Crítica Serra d'Or), and 2001 Animals tristos ("Elevated Temperature" Kiepenheuer and Witsch, 2007). Until 2006, Puntí worked as the editor of Quadern, a literary supplement to the El País newspaper . Since then he has been a columnist for the daily newspaper El Periódico and for the monthly cultural magazine L'Avenç . In 2006 Animals Tristos was filmed by Ventura Pons under the title Animals ferits . In 2010, Puntí published his first novel Maletes perdudes (“The insane journeys of Gabriel Delacruz” Kiepenheuer and Witsch , 2013), for which he received several prizes (Crítica de la narrativa catalana, Lletra d'Or, Premi Llibreter) and which has been translated into 16 languages has been. In 2011 the volume of stories Els Castellans came out. In 2014, Puntí received a literary scholarship from the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library .

Publications

Own works

• Els Castellans . L'Avenç, Barcelona 2011. ISBN 978-84-88839-52-7
• Maletes perdudes . Empúries, Barcelona 2010. ISBN 978-84-9787-616-2
• Animals dreary . Empúries, Barcelona 2002. ISBN 84-7596-959-3
• Pell d'armadillo . La Magrana, Barcelona 1988. ISBN 84-8256-565-6

Works translated into German

• The mad journeys of Gabriel Delacruz . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, 2013. Translated from the Catalan by Michael Ebmeyer . ISBN 978-3-462-04523-9
• Elevated temperature . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, 2007. Translated from the Catalan by Theres Moser. ISBN 978-3-462-03919-1

Translations

• Edward Gorey, L'hoste incert . El Far, Barcelona 2009
• Edward Gorey, L'arpa sense encordar . El Far, Barcelona 2009
• Edward Gorey, La colla mata-degolla . El Far, Barcelona 2008
• Paul Auster, Història de la meva màquina d'escriure . Edicions 62, Barcelona 2002
• Paul Auster, Lulu on the bridge . Edicions 62, Barcelona 1998
• Amélie Nothomb, Higiene de l'assassí . Columna, Barcelona 1998
• Daniel Pennac, Senyors nens . Empúries, Barcelona 1998

Web links

• Literature by and about Jordi Puntí in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Jordi Puntí in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Jordi Puntí , website at LletrA (UOC), Catalan Literature Online (en)