Terenci Moix

Terenci Moix [ təɾɛnsi moʃ ] (actually Ramon Moix i Meseguer; born January 5, 1942 in Barcelona, † April 2, 2003 ) was a Spanish novelist and journalist who has published both Spanish and Catalan works.

In Barcelona at the time of the Franco dictatorship grew, Moix spent the 1960s in the artist colony of London and Paris and held in the 1970s in Rome. His 1969 published novel The Day died at the Marilyn - a family chronicle, in which the history of his home city of Barcelona in the 20th century reflects - was a great success with the public and brought Moix breakthrough as a writer. His greatest success Moix, who had already impressed in his youth for antiquity and the Egypt of the Pharaohs, with sophisticated historical novels, including the opulent Bestsellers The dream of Cleopatra (1986 ), which was awarded the prestigious literary prize Premio Planeta. In addition to his literary activities Moix worked as a journalist for several newspapers.

Works (selection)

Novels

  • La torre de los vicios capitales
  • El día que Murió Marilyn
  • Olas sobre una roca desierta
  • Mundo macho
  • La caiguda de L' Imperi sodomita
  • La increada conciencia de la raza o melodrama
  • " Extrano en el paraiso "
  • Sadistic, esperpentic i adhuc metafisic
  • Nuestro Virgen de los Martires
  • Amami, Alfredo! o polvo de estrellas
  • No digas que fue un sueño
  • El arpista ciego
  • The dream of Cleopatra '
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