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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Ricard RUIZ GARZÓN
(Barcelona, 1973)
Writer and teacher at the Ateneu Barcelonès Writing School and at the Máster de Edición of the Universidad Pompey Fabra. With the novel Las voces del laberinto (2005) he was awarded the Premio Miradas given by the Fundación Manantial in 2006. In 2016 he won the Premio Ramon Muntaner of youth literature with the novel Herba negra and, in 2017, the Premio Edebé of children's literature for La inmortal. He has been vicepresident of the “Association of Cultural Journalists” and is part of the Board of the “Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana”
Santiago RUSIÑOL
(Barcelona, 1861 – Aranjuez, 1931)
Painter, writer, collector, journalist, and playwright. He was one of the leading figures of Catalan modernism, a peer of Ramon Casas, Mossèn Cinto Verdaguer, Pompeu Fabra, Valle-Inclán, Manuel de Falla and Erik Satie. In his usual irreverent style, he wrote La niña gorda (1917) set in Torrent de l’Olla, and the same year he made his début with his theatre play L'auca del senyor Esteve written a decade previously, the story of a Barcelonian family from the beginning of the twentieth century, set in the district of la Ribera