| Julià de Jòdar i Muñoz | |
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.jpg) Julia de Jòdar, 2014, in a debate in Salt | |
| Born | (1942-12-28) 28 December 1942 (age 81) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | Catalan |
| Nationality | Spanish |
Julià de Jòdar i Muñoz (Badalona, 28 December 1942), is a Spanish writer in Catalan.
Biography
Julia de Jòdar was born in 1942 in Badalona and grew up in the neighborhood of Gorg of this city. Although he headed towards first to study engineering and obtained his diploma in Chemical Engineering −1964, then abandoned that way to study humanities. So he graduated in Modern and Contemporary History in 1973, and he studied theater at the School of Dramatic Art Adrià Gual. There was a member of the team Ricard Salvat. His major work is L'atzar i les ombres, a trilogy comprising the novels L'àngel de la segona mort, El trànsit de les fades and El metall impur. In 2009, with his novel Pastoral catalana, a sort of homage to the American writer Philip Roth and his American Pastoral, he received the Premi Carlemany given annually by the Government of Andorra.
Currently (2006), he collaborates weekly in the newspaper Avui, fortnightly in the newspaper El Punt, weekly in Elsingulardigital and, more sporadically in VilaWeb.
The 13 October 2012 was eighty-four chosen from the list of Alternative Left-CUP to Barcelona to the 2012 Catalan parliamentary election with the aim of closing the list of constituency, along with the footballer Oleguer Presas and the lawyer August Gil Matamala eighty-third and eighty-fifth respectively.
In 2012, he published, together with the journalist David Fernàndez, the book Cop de CUP.
Works
Novels
- L'àngel de la segona mort. Barcelona: Quaderns Crema, 1997. Premi Ciutat de Barcelona 1998. ISBN 978-84-7727-185-7
- El trànsit de les fades. Barcelona: Quaderns Crema, 2001. Premi de la Crítica 2001. ISBN 978-84-7727-344-8
- L'home que va estimar Natàlia Vidal. Barcelona: Edicions 62, 2002. Prudenci Bertrana Prize 2003. ISBN 978-84-297-5347-9
- El metall impur. Barcelona: Proa, 2005. Premi Sant Jordi 2005. Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de novel·la 2007. ISBN 978-84-8437-858-7
- Noi, ¿has vist la mare amagada entre les ombres?. Barcelona: Proa, 2008. ISBN 978-84-8437-445-9
- La pastoral catalana. Barcelona: Proa, 2009. Premi Carlemany 2009. Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de novel·la 2011.
Short stories
- Zapata als Encants. Barcelona: Quaderns Crema, 1999. ISBN 978-84-7727-285-4
Other works
- Fot-li que som catalans, Barcelona: L'Esfera dels Llibres, 2005 (with Xavier Bru de Sala and Miquel de Palol).
- Fot-li més que encara som catalans, Barcelona: L'Esfera dels Llibres, 2006 (with Xavier Bru de Sala and Miquel de Palol).
- Directe al gra, Ed. Brosquil, 2007.
- Cop de CUP. Viatge a l'ànima i a les arrels de les Candidatures d'Unitat Popular, Barcelona: Columna Edicions, 2012 (with David Fernàndez).
Notes
- "Biography at the website of LletrA". lletra.uoc.edu. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
- Partal, Maresma i associats. "News of the award Charlemagne, Vilaweb, 18 December 2009". vilaweb.cat. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
- "Edicte de 29 d'octubre de 2012, pel qual es fan públiques les candidatures proclamades per la Junta Electoral Provincial de Barcelona per a les eleccions al Parlament de Catalunya". gencat.cat. Generalitat of Catalonia. 29 October 2012. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
- "Oleguer Presas, Julià de Jòdar i Gil Matamala tancaran la llista de la CUP a Barcelona". www.vilaweb.cat. Vilaweb. 23 October 2012. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
- Picazo, Sergi (20 November 2012). "'Cop de CUP', l'striptease de l'esquerra independentista". El Punt Avui. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
External links
- Julià de Jòdar at the website of Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana
- "Julià de Jòdar i Muñoz". lletrA-UOC – Open University of Catalonia.
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