Robert JUAN-CANTAVELLA
‘Roberto Juan-Cantavella is the most original voice of his generation, perhaps the best.’ José Antonio Vila, Quimera Magazine.
(Almassora, Valencia, 1976. Lives in Barcelona)
Considered one of the most talented writers of his generation, Robert Juan-Cantavella is also a French translator (notably of Mathias Enard, Virginie Despentes, Jonathan Litell, Mathias Malzieu, Rabelais, Moebius…) and a professor at the Ateneu Writing School in Barcelona. He was a contributor to the Barcelona literary magazine Lateral in the 1990s (alongside Mathias Enard, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Juan Trejo, Jordi Carrión, etc.) and Quimera which he managed several years. He is the author of several books, including Otro (2001) his first novel, El Dorado (Literatura Mondadori, 2008), the collection of short stories Proust Fiction (2005, translated in French by Mathias Enard), El corazón de Julia (2011, with Óscar Gual), the collection of poems Los sonetos (2011), Asesino cósmico (Literatura Mondadori, 2011), Y el cielo era una bestia (Anagrama, 2014). His last book published before Nadia (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2018) is an essay, The Reality: Chronicles of Scoundrels (Malpaso, 2017). His last novel, Stop, Bullet! has been published by Candaya (2024).
Here we talk about Robert Juan-Cantavella as an avant-gardist : El país 26/10/2020
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French (Le Cherche Midi)
Translated in german a short story in a collection published by Klaus Wagenbach Verlag
Audiobooks (Saga-Egmont)
