Writers and Barcelona
Barcelona has been and keeps being a perfect scene for literary works, a source of inspiration for writers who were born here and a welcoming place for writers from around the world who have described it in their books.
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Carmen LAFORET
(Barcelona, 1921 – Madrid, 2004)
She was born in Barcelona but moved with her family to Las Palmas at the age of two. At the age of eighteen, she returned to her home city to study Philosophy and LIterature and Law. She later moved to Madrid. At the young age of twenty-three, she won the first edition of the Nadal Award in 1944 for her novel Nada. Her literary career was marked by the outstanding success and impact in the world of Spanish literature of this book.
Néstor LUJÁN
(Mataró, 1922 – Barcelona 1995)
A writer and journalist, he is director and columnist for weekly newspaper Destino, where he has gained significant popularity for his writing on the poor state of public services in Barcelona. As a novelist, he has published books such as Decidnos, ¿quién mató al conde? (1987), Los espejos paralelos (1991), La Rambla fa baixada (1994, premi Ramon Llull) and Els fantasmes del Trianon (1996. Sant Jordi Award 1995). In Casanova o la incapacitat de perversió (1988), he describes Giacomo Casanova’s time in Barcelona in the year 1768.