Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel (born November 6, 1966 in Malabo ) is a writer and poet from Equatorial Guinea .
life and work
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel was born on November 6, 1966 in Malabo , Equatorial Guinea . His parents Manuel Ávila Fernández and Luisa Laurel Bizantino are Spanish settlers from the island of Annobón . Laurel lived on Annobón until he was 13. The story Arde el Monte de Noche (By Night the Mountain Burns) is based on his memories of that time. Laurel graduated from high school in Malabo and has completed training as a nurse.
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel writes poems, novels and essays and is editor-in-chief of El Patio newspaper . He is one of the leading representatives of the new Equatorial Guinean literary movement, a generation of young authors whose first texts have appeared since 1990. His work is characterized by intensive criticism of the political conditions in his home country Equatorial Guinea as well as in all of Africa.
In his blogs, Laurel attacks the dictatorial government of his country. In 2011 he made international headlines with his hunger strike in protest against the dictatorial regime of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and the “hopeless and worrying social, economic and political situation” in Equatorial Guinea. Because of this protest, he was forced to leave the country. Today he lives in exile in Barcelona .
Works
- 1994 - Poemas (Ediciones del Centro Cultural Hispano-Guineano, 1994)
- 1994 - Los hombres domésticos (Ediciones CCHG)
- 1998 - Rusia se va a Asamse (Ediciones CCHG)
- 1999 - La carga (Editorial Palmart, 1999)
- 1999 - Historia íntima de la humanidad (Ediciones Pángola, Malabo, 1999)
- 2000 - El derecho de pernada (Editorial Pángola, Malabo)
- 2000 - Áwala cu sangui (Editorial Pángola, Malabo)
- 2009 - Arde el Monte de Noche (Calambur Editorial, March 2009)
- 2012 - Letras transversales: obras escogidas (Biblioteca Hispanoafricana) (Editorial Verbum, 29 August 2012)
Web links
- World Literature Today , September 2012
- andotherstories.org , October 2012
- Erich Hackl and Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel at the Equatorial Guinea Literature Week , May 2013
- Literature by and about Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Simon Gikandi : Encyclopedia of African Literature . Taylor & Francis, London 2003, ISBN 978-1-134-58223-5 , pp. 57 (English, full text in the Google book search).
- ↑ El blog de Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, accessed on September 22, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ávila Laurel, Juan Tomás |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Equatorial Guinean writer and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 6, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Malabo |