Sebastià Alzamora i Martín

Sebastià Alzamora i Martín
Born March 6, 1972
Llucmajor, Majorca, Balearic Islands
Language Catalan
Genre Literature
Notable works La pell i la princesa (2005), Nit de l'ànima (2007), Crim de sang (2012)
Notable awards Premi Sant Jordi de novel·la 2011, Premi Carles Riba de poesia 2008, Premi Josep Pla de narrativa 2005

Sebastià Alzamora i Martín (Llucmajor, Majorca, March 6, 1972)[1] is a writer, literary critic and cultural manager from Majorca. Self-proclaimed member of the poetic group called Imparables ("Unstoppable")

Biography

Sebastià has a degree in Catalan philology from Universitat de les Illes Balears, and became known with collection of poems Rafel (1994; Premi Salvador Espriu). He has also published Apoteosi del cercle (1997), Mula morta (2001) and El benestar (2003).

As a writer, he has published L'extinció (1999), Sara i Jeremies (2002), La pell i la princesa (2005), Nit de l'ànima (2007), Miracle a Llucmajor (2010) and Dos amics de vint anys (2013). He is the author of the essay about Gabriel Janer Manila L'escriptura del Foc (1998). He also participated in Imparables, Una antologia (2004) and he has published with Hèctor Bofill and Manuel Forcano Dogmàtica Imparable (2005). As a columnist, he writes in Catalan language newspapers Avui and Ara.

Since December 2007, he is the director of the magazine "Cultura".

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Biography at Escriptors.cat
  2. ↑ "L'escriptor mallorquí Sebastià Alzamora ha guanyat el 52è Premi Sant Jordi de novel·la, dotat amb 60.000 euros, amb l'obra "Crim de sang"". www.324.cat. CCMA. December 21, 2012. Retrieved April 8, 2015.

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