Sebastià Alzamora i Martín

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Sebastià Alzamora i Martín (born in Mallorca, 6 March 1972)[1] is a writer and literary critic.

Biography

Alzamora studied from Balearic Islands University with a degree in Catalan philology. He gained popularity after releasing a book of poetry called Rafel (1994). Rafel won the Premi Salvador Espriu. He is also the author of Apoteosi del Cercle (1997), Mula Morta (2001), and El Benestar (2003).

As a narrator, he has published L'extinció (1999), Sara i Jeremies (2002), La Pell i la Princesa (2005), Nit de L'ànima (2007), Miracle a Llucmajor (2010), and Dos Amics de Vint Anys (2013). He wrote an essay about Gabriel Janer Manila called L'escriptura del Foc (1998). He also helped create Imparables, Una antologia (2004), and published Dogmàtica Imparable (2005) with Héctor Bofill and Manuel Forcano. Since December 2007, he has been director of the magazine Cultura.

Awards

References

  1. Biografia a Escriptors.cat
  2. 324.cat, ed. (2011-12-21). "The Majorcan writer Sebastià Alzamora has won the 52nd Premi Sant Jordi of novel, with 60.000 euros, with the work "Crim de sang"" (in catalan).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)