Juan Marsé

Juan Marsé Carbó (8 January 1933 – 18 July 2020) was a Spanish novelist, journalist and screenwriter. In 2008 he was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, "the Spanish-language equivalent"^[1] to the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in Barcelona.

In 1974, he started a column in the magazine Por Favor. He wrote two novels about post-war Barcelona, Un día volveré (One Day I'll Come Back) and Ronda del Guinardó, followed by the collection of short stories, Teniente Bravo.

Marsé died at a hospital in Barcelona on 18 July 2020 from heart failure, aged 87.^[2]

Works

• The Dark History of Cousin Montse (Jordi Cadena, 1977)
• Girl with the Golden Panties (Vicente Aranda, 1980)
• Last evening with Teresa (Gonzalo Herralde, 1984)
• If you say that I fell (Vicente Aranda, 1989)
• The Bilingual Lover (Vicente Aranda, 1993)
• Domenica (Wilma Labate, 2001) - adapted by Guinardó Round
• The Shanghai Spell (Fernando Trueba, 2002)
• Lolita's Club (Vicente Aranda, 2007)