David Castillo i Buïls
David Castillo i Buïls | |
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 David Castillo at 2010 | |
| Born | 1961 Barcelona |
| Occupation | Poet, novelist and biographer |
| Language | Catalan |
| Notable awards | Premi Joan Crexells de narrativa (1999), Premi Carles Riba de poesia (1997), Premi Sant Jordi de novel·la (2001) |
David Castillo i Buïls (born Barcelona, 1961) is a Catalan poet, writer, and literary critic. He started out as a poet with counterculture and clandestine publications in the 1970s, although his first published work, a declaration of principles, was the biography of Bob Dylan in 1992. Three years earlier, he had been the anthologist of Ser del segle, which brought together leading voices of the generation of the 1980s. They were followed by a series of poems among them Game over, which won the premi Carles Riba. Then, he began a career as a writer with novels like El cel de l'infern and No miris enrere, that was well accepted both by critics and the general public. The first work has been awarded with the premi Crexells for the best Catalan novel of the year 1999. The second has been awarded the Premi Sant Jordi de novel·la of 2001. He has received three times the "Atlàntida awards for journalism" and he has also been awarded the Italian "Tratti Poetry Prize for the best foreign poet" for his anthology of poetry translated into Italian. He has been organizing various poetic cycles and he is founder and director of the Poetry Week in Barcelona since 1997.[1]
Moreover, from the very beginning of the new reviews created after the return of democracy in Spain, he has been publishing articles and literary criticisms. From 1989 he is editor of the cultural supplement of the newspaper Avui, in 2011 merged with El Punt forming El Punt Avui. He has been leading for eight years the magazine Lletra de canvi and he has also worked for five-year as a lecturer of Autonomous University of Barcelona. Together with the young poet Marc Sardà he has published the book Conversaciones con Pepín Bello, which has had a deep impact in criticism.[1]
Works
Biography
- 1992 Bob Dylan
- 2007 Conversaciones con Pepín Bello, with Marc Sardà
- 2009 Bcn Rock, with Ferran Sendra
Poetry
- 1993 La muntanya russa
- 1994 Tenebra
- 1997 Poble Nou flash back, with Albert Chust
- 1998 Game over
- 2000 El pont de Mühlberg
- 2000 Seguint l'huracà, with Marcel Pey
- 2001 Bandera negra
- 2005 Menta i altres poemes
- 2006 Downtown
- 2006 Esquena nua
- 2011 Doble zero
Novels
- 1999 El cel de l'infern
- 2002 No miris enrere
- 2009 El llibre dels mals catalans
- 2010 El mar de la tranquil·litat
Awards
- 1987 Premi Atlàntida millor revista cultural for the work "El temps"
- 1990 Premi Atlàntida millor suplement cultural diari Avui
- 1997 Premi Carles Riba de poesia for Game over
- 1999 Premi Joan Crexells de narrativa for El cel de l'infern
- 2001 Premi Sant Jordi de novel·la for No miris enrere
- 2005 Premi Atlàntida millor articulista de l'any en llengua catalana
- 2006 Premi Cadaqués al millor poemari de l'any for Esquena nua
- 2006 Italian Tratti Poetry Prize for Il presente abandonatto
- 2010 Premi Atlàntida millor suplement cultural diari El Punt Avui
Notes
- ^ a b Aisa, Ferran (10 April 2015). "David Castillo". www.lletra.net. Open University of Catalonia / Institut Ramon Llull. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
- Writers from Barcelona
- Catalan poets
- Living people
- 1961 births
- Catalan novelists
- Catalan literary critics
- 20th-century Spanish poets
- 21st-century Spanish poets
- 20th-century Spanish novelists
- 21st-century Spanish novelists
- Spanish male poets
- Spanish male novelists
- 20th-century Spanish male writers
- 21st-century Spanish male writers