Juan Marsé

Juan Faneca Roca, better known by his adopted name Juan Marsé ( born January 8, 1933, Barcelona ) is a Spanish writer.

Life

After his mother died in childbirth, was Juan Faneca Roca from the couple Marsé adopted and took his family name. He was a poor student and began to work in a jewelry store as a teenager. For a time he was also engaged in the film magazine Arcinema in Barcelona.

His first stories he published in 1958 in the magazines Ínsula and El Ciervo. A year later he already had his first literary prize, the " Sésamo de cuentos " for his narrative Nada para morir. In 1960 he published his first novel, Encerrados con un solo juguete.

From 1959 to 1962 he lived in Paris, where he worked as a Spanish teacher, translator and laboratory assistant at the Institut Pasteur. Then he returned to Barcelona, ​​where he in 1962 Esta cara de la luna published, a text he later excluded from his collected works. He also worked in the advertising industry as well as a writer of film scripts; as a journalist, he was editor in chief of favor magazines Boccaccio and Por.

In 1966 he married Joaquina Hoyas, with whom he had two children: Alejandro ( born in 1968 ) and Berta ( born 1970).

In the years 1988-1989 he published a column in the daily newspaper El País titled Aventuras del capitán Blay.

The 1990s brought his international breakthrough as a writer: In 1990 he was awarded the literary prize "Premio Ateneo de Sevilla " for the novel El amante bilingüe (which should also be filmed later); 1994 him for El embrujo de Shanghai the "Premio de la Crítica " and the " Aristeion price " attributed.

His work has been translated into many languages ​​; among other things, into Polish, English, French, German, Romanian and Hungarian. Some of his lyrics were filmed, or adapted for the theater, as Últimas tardes con Teresa, Si te dicen que cai La muchacha de las bragas de oro and El amante bilingüe.

Plant characteristics

Juan Marsé is the so- called " generation of 1950 " at; His first major success was the 1966 novel published last days with Teresa.

His novels usually play in Barcelona in the 1940s. Nevertheless, he succeeds, how to mix in his novel The Magic of Shanghai, reality and fantasy in a masterly way and to create a portrait of society.

For his novel portrays votes in the canyon, the Barcelona to Franco's time from the point of view of an embryo, he received the 2001 Premio Nacional de la Crítica and in the same year for his previous work as a whole the Premio Nacional de Literatura.

Works

Films

• La oscura historia de la prima Montse ( Director: Jordi Cadena, 1978)
• La muchacha de las bragas de oro ( Director: Vicente Aranda, 1980)
• Últimas tardes con Teresa ( Director: Gonzalo Herralde, 1984)
• Si te dicen que Caí ( Director: Vicente Aranda, 1989)
• El amante bilingüe ( Director: Vicente Aranda, 1993)
• Domenica (Director: Wilma Labate, 2001) = filming of Ronda del Guinardó
• El embrujo de Shangai ( Director: Fernando Trueba, 2002)
• Canciones de amor en Lolita 's Club ( Director: Vicente Aranda, 2007)

Awards

• 2001 Premio Nacional de Literatura, Premio Nacional de la Crítica
• 2008 Premio Cervantes