Juan Gómez Bárcena

Juan Gómez Bárcena (born December 5, 1984 in Santander , Spain ) is a Spanish author , literary critic and lecturer .

Life

Bárcena studied literary theory and comparative literature as well as history at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid and philosophy at the National Distance Learning University (UNED).

In 2012, Bárcena published a collection of his stories under the title Los que duermen . His first, multiple award-winning novel El cielo de Lima was published in 2014. In it he takes up an episode from 1904 in a creative way in which Juan Ramón Jiménez, known for his love poetry, fell victim to a bad joke that struck him deeply: Two For a long time, would-be poets staged an exchange of letters from a young and beautiful fictional resident of Lima who allegedly fell in love with him , admired and criticized his poetry and made him his muse . The 2017 novel Canada is about a Holocaust survivor who returns from the camp and addresses trauma, guilt and memory.

Bárcena lives today (2019) as a writer and lecturer in creative writing in Madrid.

Publications

Los que duermen , stories. Editorial Salto de Página, 2012. (New edition 2019 by Sexto Piso).
as editor and author of the introduction: VV. AA. Bajo treinta , anthology. Editorial Salto de Página, 2013.
El cielo de Lima , novel. Editorial Salto de Página, 2014.
- German by Steven Uhly : Der Himmel von Lima , Roman. Secession Verlag für Literatur, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-905951-95-0 .
Canada , novel. Sexto Piso, 2017.
- German by Steven Uhly : Canada , Roman. Secession Verlag für Literatur, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-906910-34-5 .

Prizes and awards

2003: Premio José Hierro for short story of the city of Santander.
2007: Premio José Hierro de Poesia in his hometown.
2014: Premio Tormenta for Los que duermen .
2014: Premio Ojo Crítico for El cielo de Lima .
2015: Premio Ciudad de Alcalá de Narrativa for the same novel.
2017: Premio Ciudad de Santander for Canada .

Web links

Juan Gómez Bárcena Biografía. In: fuente taja. Retrieved November 17, 2019(Spanish).
Alberto Gordo: Juan Gómez Bárcena: “No hay nada malo ni poco ético en los finales felices”. In: El Cultural. March 31, 2017, accessed on November 17, 2019 (Spanish, interview with Gómez Bárcena).

Individual evidence

↑ Katharina Teutsch: camp novel of a later born. In: Deutschlandfunk . March 18, 2019, accessed November 17, 2019 .
↑ Conversación con… “Reconfigurando la realidad” (speaker biographies). In: Casa de Mexico. October 30, 2019, Retrieved November 17, 2019 (Spanish).
^ Sexto Piso recupera los relatos de "Los que duermen", de Juan Gómez Bárcena. In: La Vanguardia . July 7, 2019, accessed November 17, 2019 (Spanish).
^ The poet and the reader , in: FAZ , January 12, 2017, page 10.
↑ Santander reconoce a Juan Gómez Bárcena y Mario Camus, reflejo de su tradición literaria. In: EuropaPress. December 14, 2017, Retrieved November 17, 2019 (Spanish).

personal data
SURNAME	Bárcena, Juan Gómez
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish author, literary critic and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH	5th December 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH	Santander , Spain

[1] Katharina Teutsch: camp novel of a later born. In: Deutschlandfunk . March 18, 2019, accessed November 17, 2019 .

[2] Conversación con… “Reconfigurando la realidad” (speaker biographies). In: Casa de Mexico. October 30, 2019, Retrieved November 17, 2019 (Spanish).

[3] Sexto Piso recupera los relatos de "Los que duermen", de Juan Gómez Bárcena. In: La Vanguardia . July 7, 2019, accessed November 17, 2019 (Spanish).

[4] The poet and the reader , in: FAZ , January 12, 2017, page 10.

[5] Santander reconoce a Juan Gómez Bárcena y Mario Camus, reflejo de su tradición literaria. In: EuropaPress. December 14, 2017, Retrieved November 17, 2019 (Spanish).