Julià de Jòdar i Muñoz

Julià de Jòdar i Muñoz

Julia de Jòdar, 2014, in a debate in Salt
Born December 28, 1942
Occupation Writer
Language Catalan
Nationality Catalonia

Julià de Jòdar i Muñoz (Badalona, 28 December 1942), is a Catalan writer.

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.[1] 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.[2]

Currently (2006), he collaborates weekly in the newspaper Avui, fortnightly in the newspaper El Punt, weekly in Elsingulardigital and, more sporadically in VilaWeb.

The October 13 of 2012 was eighty-four chosen from the list of Alternative Left-CUP to Barcelona to the Catalonian parliamentary election, 2012 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.[3][4]

In 2012, he published, together with the journalist David Fernàndez, the book Cop de CUP.[5]

Works

Novels

Short stories

Other works

Notes

  1. "Biography at the website of LletrA". lletra.uoc.edu. Retrieved 2015-04-09.
  2. Partal, Maresma i associats. "News of the award Charlemagne, Vilaweb, 18 December 2009". vilaweb.cat. Retrieved 2015-04-09.
  3. "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.
  4. "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.
  5. Picazo, Sergi (20 November 2012). "'Cop de CUP', l'striptease de l'esquerra independentista". El Punt Avui. Retrieved 4 April 2013.

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