Ricard Ruiz Garzón
Ricard Ruiz Garzón, born in Barcelona in 1973, is a writer, curator of the 42 Festival (Barcelona Fantastic Genres Festival) and a teacher at the Ateneu Barcelonès writing school. Winner of various awards, including the Muntaner, Edebé and Ictineu, he is the author of some 15 books, including Esquizo [Schizo], Herba negra [Black Grass], Mary Shelley i el monstre de Frankenstein [Mary Shelley and Frankenstein’s Monster] Mångata and Janowitz. His works have been adapted to comic and theatre formats and translated into half a dozen languages. He has been a board member and secretary of the Association of Catalan-Language Writers (AELC) and the deputy chair of the IBBYCAT-CLIJCAT organisation for children’s/YA literature in Catalan.
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