Sebastià Alzamora i Martín

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Sebastià Alzamora i Martín (2014)

Sebastià Alzamora i Martín (born March 6, 1972 in Llucmajor , Balearic Islands ) is a Spanish writer who writes in Catalan . He studied Catalan Philology at the University of the Balearic Islands and moved to Barcelona in 1995 after graduating , where he has lived and worked ever since.

In addition to his work as a writer, he works for the university and other cultural institutions. He is a member of the Institut d'Estudis Balearics . He worked at the Destino publishing house and Moll publishing house. He occasionally writes columns in the daily newspapers Avui and Ara .

In 1989 he made his debut with the Rafel collection of poems , which was awarded the Salvador Espriu Prize in the same year . Rafel is a long elegy in 775 tens with reflections on the early death of a young friend. The critics were amazed at the maturity of such a young author. Three new collections followed in 1996: Formes del Cercle , Apoteosi , awarded the Bartomeu Rosselló-Porcel Prize and the bilingual edition El Llinatge with translation into Spanish by Josep Jordana.

He made his debut as a novelist in 1999 with L'extinció , a poetic and experimental novel that was awarded the Premi Documenta . Then followed Mula morta and in 2003 El Benestar , the first work to be set in Barcelona and one of his greatest successes to date. With Crim de sang ("Blood deed") in 2011, he won the Premi Sant Jordi the following year . According to the critic Melcior Comes, Alzamora's novel “Monsters, machines, fanatics, but also beautiful princesses and learned angelic beings who are out of this world”, and further: “His own Gothic or theological worldview [...] and his peculiar ones The mixture of joie de vivre and hideous spirit makes his book really attractive; his romantic bet to combine the grotesque with the search for deeper, moving beauty has succeeded anyway. "

He also wrote stories such as Història vertadera del peix Nicolaus (2003 “The true story of the fish Nicholas”) or in anthologies with other writers.

Works (selection)

Poems
  • Rafel (1989)
  • Formes del Cercle , Apoteosi , El Llinatge (1996)
  • Mula Morta (2003)
Novels
  • L'extinció (1999)
  • El benestar (2003)
  • Miracle a LLucmajor (2010)
  • Crim de Sang (2011)
  • Dos amics de vint anys (2013). (Novel about the friendship between two twenty-year-old poets: the early deceased Bartomeu Rosselló-Porcell from Mallorca and Salvador Espriu i Castelló .)
stories
  • Història vertadera del peix Nicolaus (2003)
  • Directe al gra (2006) in an anthology with erotic stories by Carles Cortés, Julià de Jòdar and Isabel-Clara Simó, among others .
essay
  • Dogmàtica imparable: Abandoneu tota esperança (2005), with Hèctor Bofill and Manual Forcano (The programmatic essay of the group Els Imparables .)

His works have been translated into English, Spanish, French, Italian and Danish, but not yet into German.

Prices

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Sebastià Alzamora i Martin" , Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana . April 16, 2015 release.
  2. ↑ a b Guillem Molla, “Biografia” , bio and bibliographic index card on the website of the Association of Authors, Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana
  3. ↑ “Alzamora Martín, Sebastià” , Qui és qui. Índex d'autors , Generalitat de Catalunya, Ministry of Culture, 16 May 2014.
  4. ↑ Miquel Àngel Riera i Nadal, in the “Preface” to the first edition by Rafel , Edicions62, 1994.
  5. ↑ Melcior Comes, "Carn de desgràcia", review of Crim de Sang in the magazine Presència , June 2012, quoted by: "Sebastià Alzamora" , Lletra, La literatura catalana a Internet, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
  6. ↑ Number 3 in the series Salón naútico , Mobil Books, 2003, ISBN 978-849623700-1 .
  7. ↑ a b For a complete and updated bibliography: "Obra" , on the escriptors.cat website .
  8. ↑ David Castillo, “Història d'una amistat. Alzamora presenta una novel·la sobre Espriu amb Rosselló-Pòrcel ” , El Punt Avui , June 21, 2013, p. 66
  9. ^ Ana Macías, "Sebastià Alzamora narra la amistad entre Espriu y Rosselló-Pòrcel" , El País , June 29, 2013
  10. ^ "Sebastià Alzamora" , Actes Sud publishing house
  11. ↑ a b Sebastià Alzamora , short biography on the website of the Grup 62 publishing house
  12. ↑ "L'Escriptor mallorquí Sebastià Alzamora ha guanyat el 52E Premi Sant Jordi de Novella dotat amb 60,000 euros, amb l'obra , Crim de sang ' ' , 324.cat , 21. December 2011
personal data
SURNAME Alzamora i Martín, Sebastià
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Llucmajor , Balearic Islands