Retrat de Víctor García Tur

Writer

Víctor García Tur (Barcelona, 1981) has a degree in Ophthalmology. 

His first collection of short stories, Twistanschauung (Empúries, 2009), won the Documenta Award, and his novels Els ocells [The Birds] (Empúries, 2016) and Els romanents [The Remnants] (Empúries, 2018) received the Marian Vayreda and Just M. Casero Awards, respectively. The stories in El país dels cecs [The Land of the Blind] (Proa, 2018) won him the Mercè Rodoreda Award. Other stories of his have been collected in several anthologies.

Articles by Víctor García Tur

Il·lustració d'uns micos en un parc vestits com científics © Ana Yael Zareceansky
The hundredth monkey effect

Similar: we see the little hands and little fingers (oh, the defining opposable thumb) and they seem so human. Then we look them in the eyes and the familiarity is complete. When we look...

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