Born in Barcelona in 1973, is a writer, the curator of the 42 Festival and a teacher at the Ateneu Barcelonès Writing School. Winner of awards such as the Muntaner, Edebé and Ictineu, he is the author of nearly fifteen books, including two essays on Frankenstein and Dracula and novels such as Esquizo [Schizophrenic], Herba negra [Black Grass], Mångata and Janowitz. He has also compiled anthologies (Insólitas [Unusual Women] Extraordinàries [Extraordinary Women]) and worked as a critic and journalist for the press, radio and television for a quarter of a century. He has been a board member and secretary of the Catalan-Language Writers Association (AELC), co-director of the QLit Festival and deputy chair of the IBBYCAT organisation for children’s/YA literature in Catalan. His works have been adapted to comic, theatre and film formats and translated into half a dozen languages.
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