Francesc Serés Explained

Francesc Serés
Birth Name:Francesc Serés Guillén
Birth Date:22 December 1972
Birth Place:Zaidín, Spain
Occupation:Writer
Education:Philosophy and anthropology
Alma Mater:University of Barcelona
Period:21st century

Francesc Serés Guillén (born Zaidín, Spain, December 22, 1972) is a Catalan-language writer.

He obtained a Fine Arts degree (1996) and another in Anthropology (1998) from the University of Barcelona and, in 2001, the title of Research Aptitude from the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona.

With his first novel Els ventres de la terra (The Bellies of the Earth, 2000), he was a finalist for the Pere Calders Prize, after which he published two more novels, L'arbre sense tronc (The Tree without a Trunk, 2001) and Una llengua de plom (A Tongue of Lead, 2002). A third book, De fems i de marbres (On Manures and Marbles, 2003) concluded this trilogy.

He has also written a short-story collection titled La força de la gravetat (Force of Gravity, 2006 – winner of the "Serra d'Or" Critics' Prize for Fiction and the National Literature Prize); the set of reports La matèria primera (Raw Material – winner of Octavi Pellissa Prize, which was published in 2007); and Contes russos (Russian Stories, 2009 – winner of the Critics' Prize and the City of Barcelona Prize for Fiction) and translated to English by Peter Bush. In the sphere of theatre he has written the play Caure amunt. Muntaner, Roig, Llull (Falling Up: Muntaner, Llull and Roig, 2008).

His last book La pell de la frontera (Traversing the Border) was published in 2014.[1]

He has collaborated with El País Spanish newspaper and with Ara.[2]

Published works

References

  1. Web site: Llull. Institut Ramon. Catalan writer Francesc Serés at the Universities of Chicago and of Montreal - News - Institut Ramon Llull – Catalan Language and culture abroad. www.llull.cat. 31 January 2017. en. CC-BY-SA text
  2. News: Artículos escritos por Francesc Serés EL PAÍS. PAÍS. Ediciones EL. EL PAÍS. es. 2017-01-31.
  3. Web site: Contes Russos.