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)

References

1. Flood, Alison (28 November 2008). "Catalan novelist Juan Marsé wins the 'Spanish Nobel prize'". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
2. Muere el escritor Juan Marsé (in Spanish)

Other websites

• Official Site of Juan Marsé (in Spanish)
• Guided tour of locations featured in Marsé's novels