Xavier Bosch i Sancho

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Xavier Bosch (right) as moderator of the "Àgora" program (2009)

Xavier Bosch i Sancho (born July 21, 1967 in Barcelona , Catalonia ) is a Spanish journalist , writer and TV producer who writes in Catalan .

Live and act

Bosch studied information science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona . Together with Antoni Bassas he began his career as a radio producer with the humorous program Alguna pregunta més (“Are there any more questions?”, 1994–1997), for which he was awarded the Ondas Prize.

In 2000 he became director of the radio station RAC-1. In April 2007, his program El món a RAC-1 (“the world at RAC-1”) received the award for the best radio program from the Associació Catalunya Ràdio. According to the jury report, he succeeded "in a very short time with a program characterized by high precision and good humor to get a high audience rating ."

He also wrote as a sports journalist for La Vanguardia and El Mundo Deportivo . From 2007 to 2008 he was director of the daily Avui . In 2010 he was one of the initiators of the new daily newspaper Ara , in which he has a permanent column .

He made his debut as a writer in 1992 with the novel Jo, el simolses. The trilogy with an autobiographical background about the fictional journalist Dani Santana, Se Sabrà tot (2010), Homes d'honor (2012) and Eufòria (2014) are among his best-known works. In the novel Algú com tu (2015) he leaves the world of journalism and opens up a new topic: love, death, joy and enthusiasm.

He also works for TV3 , among other things with the program Un tomb per la Vida ("A turning point for life") (1993/1994), the program Aquest Anys, Cent on the centenary of the football club Barça and from 2009 to 2013 as Moderator for the Àgora interview program .

Works

Novels and short stories
  • Jo, el simolses Barcelona (1992)
  • La màgia dels reis (1994)
  • Estimat diari (1996)
  • Vicis domèstics (1998)
  • The autobiographical trilogy about the fictional journalist Dani Santana:
    • Se sabrà dead (2010)
    • Homes d'honor (2012)
    • Eufòria (2014)
  • Algú com tu (2015)
theatre
  • El culékulé (1996)

Prices

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GVA, "Xavier Bosch i Sancho" , Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana . February 6, 2015 release.
  2. ↑ "Setens premis Ràdio Associació" ( Memento of 18 April 2015, Internet Archive )
  3. ^ "Bosch Sancho, Xavier" , bio- and bibliographical index card in: Qui és qui. Index d'autors on the website of the Ministry of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya
  4. ^ ACN, "El periodista Xavier Bosch guanya el Premi Sant Jordi amb una novel·la sobre la manca de llibertat en el periodisme" , El Punt Avui , December 11, 2009, (in German: The journalist Xavier Bosch wins the Premi Sant Jordi with a novel about the lack of press freedom)
  5. ↑ Maria Palau, “Xavier Bosch novella el periodisme miserable. L'exdirector del diari Avui guanya el premi Sant Jordi per «Se sabrà tot», una obra situada en una Barcelona corrupta ” , El Punt ° , December 12, 2009, page 35 (in German:“ Xavier Bosch writes a novel about the Misery of the journalistic profession . The former director of the Avui newspaper scores the Premi Sant Jordi with his novel Se sabrà dead, which takes place in corrupt Barcelona. ")
  6. ↑ Jaume Vidal, “La força de l'amor: El periodista Xavier Bosch guanya el premi Ramon Llull amb 'Algú com tu'” , El Punt Avui , February 7, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Bosch i Sancho, Xavier
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bosch, Xavier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Catalan journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona