Joan Barril

Joan Barril i Cuixart (20 January 1952 – 13 December 2014) was a Catalan journalist and writer. He was born in Barcelona, Spain. He was known for his writing columns in El País, La Vanguardia, and in El Periódico de Catalunya.

Barril in 2011

In 1998, he won the Ramon Llull Novel Award for Parada obligatòria.^[1]

Barril died in Barcelona from pneumonia, aged 62.^[2]

References

1. "Joan Barril gana el Ramon Llull con una obra sobre la crisis de los 40" [Joan Barril Wins the Ramon Llull with a Work About the Crisis of the 40s]. El País (in Spanish). Barcelona. 12 March 1998. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
2. Hasta luego, maestro Joan Barril (in Spanish)

External links

• Web de El Cafè de la República Archived 2010-03-14 at the Wayback Machine (in Catalan)
• Web de opinión de El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish)
• Web del programa Qwerty (in Spanish)
• Entrevista a Joan Barril (in Spanish)
• Editorial Barril & Barral (in Spanish)