M. G. Sanchez Explained

Notableworks:Border Control and other Autobiographical Pieces (2019)
Gooseman (2020)

M. G. Sanchez is a Gibraltarian writer who has written over a dozen books on Gibraltarian identity. His works have been reviewed in literary journals in Europe and the United Kingdom and he has lectured at many universities.

Background

Born in Gibraltar in 1968, Sanchez attended primary and secondary schools in the territory. Sanchez represented Gibraltar at international level in his youth, coming 139th in the 1985 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior men's race. In 1995, Sanchez moved to the United Kingdom to study English Literature at the University of Leeds. He received a PhD in English Literature a doctoral thesis on subject of anti-Spanish sentiment in Elizabethan literary and political writing.[1] Sanchez is a resident of the United Kingdom, but he also made long visits to New Zealand (2004), India (2005‒2008) and Japan (2014‒2016).[2] In November 2020 he was awarded the Cultural Ambassador Award at the Gibraltar Government's annual culture awards.

Literary career

Writing in the New Statesman in early 2015, Sanchez stated that his intention as a writer and speaker was "to present a Gibraltar that feels more real and more tangible than the “contested territory” cliché that readers so often encounter in newspaper editorials."[3] His book Past: A Memoir (2016) relates hardships his family endured during the 2013 Gibraltar border dispute between Spain and the United Kingdom. Sanchez also describes a walk he took in Gibraltar's Upper Town Area with the historian Nicholas Rankin.

Articles about Sanchez's work have appeared in British and American Studies,[4] Il Tolomeo,[5] Ariel,[6] ES Review,[7] Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, [8] the Kervan International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies,[9] the International Journal of Iberian Studies,[10] the Journal of Mediterranean Studies,[11] the Open Library of Humanities,[12] as well as in books such as Ritorno a Babele: esercizi di globalizzazione[13] and (Post)Colonial Passages: Incursions and Excursion Across the Literatures and Cultures in English.[14]

Sanchez has lectured at the University of Salamanca,[15] the University of Turin,[16] the University of the Balearic Islands,[17] [18] the University of Portsmouth,[19] the University of Strasbourg,[20] the University of Barcelona,[21] the University of Northumbria,[22] the University of Granada,[23] the University of Lisbon,[24] the University of Gibraltar,[25] the University of Malta,[26] and King's College London.[27] For an appearance at the University of Basel,[28] Sanchez wrote an autobiographical piece entitled 'Fifty Years of Unbelonging.'[29] He also participated in the 2017 Gibraltar International Literary Festival, delivering a talk entitled 'Representing Gibraltarianness,.'[30] During the 2018 event, Sanchez discussed his book Bombay Journal.[31]

In December 2020 Sanchez was invited by the University of Barcelona to deliver the 21st annual Doireann MacDermott Lecture. His talk - 'Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial: Writing and the Creation of a Third-Space Identity' - was subsequently published in a special issue of Coolablah, the official journal of the Australian and Transnational Studies Centre at the Universitat de Barcelona.[32]

Sanchez has also taken part in radio programmes, including the Australian Broadcasting Company show Late Night Live,[33] the BBC World Service's The Cultural Frontline[34] and Lletres Ebrenques with Emigdi Subirats i Sebastià.[35]

Publications

Critical bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Book: Sanchez. M. G.. Anti-Spanish sentiment in English literary and political writing, 1553-1603. 2004. PhD thesis. Brotherton Library . University of Leeds.
  2. Web site: Gibraltarian novelist M.G. Sanchez in conversation with Norbert Bugeja. 2021-12-28. University of Malta.
  3. News: Sanchez. M. G.. February 2015. 'If you don't write your own stories, others will...'. New Statesman.
  4. 2016. Mediterranean Gothic: M.G. Sanchez's Gibraltar Fiction in its Contexts. British and American Studies. 22. 101–110. Stotesbury. John.
  5. 2015. Review of Solitude House. Il Tolomeo. 17. 185–187. Adami. Esterino.
  6. Alonso-Breto. Isabel. Sanchez. Mark. 2021-09-23. Somewhere Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial: An interview with Gibraltarian author Mark G. Sanchez. ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature. en. 52. 3–4. 249–261 . 10.1353/ari.2021.0032 . 239276225 . 1920-1222.
  7. Manzanas Calvo. Ana María. 2017. The Line and the Limit of Britishness: The Construction of Gibraltarian Identity in M. G. Sanchez's Writing. ES Review. 38. 38. 27–45. 10.24197/ersjes.38.2017.27-45. free.
  8. Gerke. Amanda Ellen. 2018-12-16. Discursive Boundaries: Code-Switching as Representative of Gibraltarian Identity Construction in M.G. Sanchez' Rock Black. Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies. en. 57. 35–57 . 10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20186321 . 159219388 . 1137-6368. free.
  9. Gabay. Rebecca. 2018. M. G. Sanchez's Bombay Journal. Redressing the Past from the Colonial Present. Kervan International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies. 22. 291–294.
  10. Newcomb. Robert Patrick. 2020-03-01. Border Control and Other Autobiographical Pieces, M. G. Sanchez (2019). 2020-06-04. International Journal of Iberian Studies. 33 . 107–108 . 10.1386/ijis_00020_5 . 226100480 . en.
  11. Fernández Santiago . Miriam . 2021 . Gooseman by M.G. Sanchez (review) . Journal of Mediterranean Studies . 30 . 1 . 127–128 . 2523-9465.
  12. Habermann. Ina. 2020-06-03. Gibraltarian Hauntologies: Spectres of Colonialism in the Fiction of M. G. Sanchez. Open Library of Humanities. en. 6. 1. 19. 10.16995/olh.503. 2056-6700. free.
  13. Book: Trinchero, Cristina. Ritorno A Babele: Esercizi Di Globalizzazione. Neos Ediozini. 2013. 9788866080978. 71–81. La Rocca di Babele: narrazioni e trasformazioni linguistiche in M. G. Sanchez.
  14. Book: Albertazzi, Silvia. (Post)Colonial Passages Incursions and Excursions across the Literatures and Cultures in English. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2018. 978-1-5275-0630-5. Cambridge. 204–216. A Passage to Gibraltar: Alterity and Representation in M. G. Sanchez.
  15. Web site: May 22 - Sanchez Promotes Gibraltarian Writing At University Of Salamanca. Team. YGTV. Your Gibraltar TV. 22 May 2019 . en-gb. 2019-05-29.
  16. News: Gibraltarian Author M. G. Sanchez At The University Of Turin. Your Gibraltar TV. 15 December 2016.
  17. Web site: Language and identity in Gibraltar - Gibraltar - 16-17 - Formació - Cultura - Servei d'Activitats Culturals - Serveis i oficines de la UIB - Estructura - Coneix la UIB - Universitat de les Illes Balears. Balears. Universitat de les Illes. sac.uib.cat. ca. 2017-05-01.
  18. Web site: LVTC - Language Variation and Textual Categorisation. view0.webs.uvigo.es. 2017-05-08.
  19. News: Gibraltarian Author Delivers Lecture About The Gibraltar Border At The University Of Portsmouth. 26 June 2017. Your Gibraltar TV. en-gb.
  20. News: Talking the language of borders at the University of Strasbourg Gibraltar Chronicle. 2018-10-11. en-GB.
  21. News: Oct 25 - Local Writer M. G. Sanchez Delivers 'Tricontinental' Lecture At The University Of Barcelona. Team. YGTV. Your Gibraltar TV. 2018-10-25. en-gb.
  22. News: Nov 05 - M.G. Sanchez Discusses Gibraltar And Brexit At The University Of Northumbria. Team. YGTV. Your Gibraltar TV. 2018-11-06. en-gb.
  23. Web site: Online lecture by M. G. Sánchez . 2022-03-11 . Online lecture by M. G. Sánchez Departamento de Filologías Inglesa y Alemana . 7 March 2022 . es.
  24. Web site: Próximos seminários do GI Identidades, Culturas e Vulnerabilidades (ICS-ULisboa) com o tema "Arguing borders in the Mediterranean: a seminar in two parts". APA. 2019-03-15. Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (APA). pt-PT. 2019-03-26.
  25. Web site: Writing Gibraltar: A personal history University of Gibraltar. www.unigib.edu.gi. en-GB. 2018-11-25.
  26. Web site: Gibraltarian novelist M.G. Sanchez in conversation with Norbert Bugeja. 2021-12-24. University of Malta.
  27. Web site: Mark Sanchez Speaks At British Association For Modernist Studies Conference. Your Gibraltar TV (YGTV). 24 June 2019 . en-gb. 2019-06-24.
  28. News: Gibraltarian Author M. G. Sanchez Invited To Speak At The University Of Basel. Your Gibraltar TV. 13 September 2016.
  29. Web site: Kompetenzzentrum Kulturelle Topographien: M. G. Sanchez on Brexit. kultop.unibas.ch. en. 2017-07-15.
  30. Web site: Representing Gibraltarianness – Gibraltar Chronicle. chronicle.gi. en-GB. 2017-12-19.
  31. Web site: Gibraltar Literary Festival. www.gibraltarliteraryfestival.com. 2018-11-25.
  32. Sanchez . Mark G. . 2022-05-20 . Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial: : Writing and the Creation of a Third-Space Identity . Coolabah . en . 32 . 1–11 . 10.1344/co2022321-11 . 31 January 2024 . 1988-5946.
  33. News: Life on the Rock of Gibraltar. Adams. Phillip. 5 March 2015. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
  34. News: Gibraltar Writer Features In BBC Radio Programme. Your Gibraltar TV. 2017-05-01. en-gb.
  35. Web site: Antena Caro - Mark G. Sánchez, escriptor gibraltareny - 26-04-13.. antenacaro.cat. ca. 2017-05-01.

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