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Jordi Sierra i Fabra Candidature to the Hans Christian Andersen Award 2020 Category: Author Spain (Spanish Section)
CONTENTS
P. 5 Institutional Endorsement
P. 6 Application Letter (by María Jesús Gil)
Application Letter (by Reina Duarte)
P. 8 Interview by José R. Cortés Criado
P. 12 Study by Anabel Saiz Ripoll
P. 24 Biography
P. 32 Literary Awards
P. 36 Published Works and Current Editions
P. 42 Selected Literary Works
P. 52 Books Published in Other Languages
P. 60 Comments in the Press
P. 66 10 Selected Books Published in Spain
P. 68 5 Selected Books for the Jury to read
& Published Reviews of the Books Submitted to the Jury
P. 73 ollage (Interviews, Conferences,
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Feature Press Comments, etc.)
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INSTITUTIONAL ENDORSEMENT
OEPLI
Organización Española del Libro Infantil y Juvenil
(Spanish Organisation for Children´s and Young Adults´ Books)
C. Santiago Rusiñol 8, 24040 Madrid
CLIJCAT
Consell Català del Llibre Infantil i Juvenil
(The Catalan Council for Children´s and Young Adults´ Books)
C. Mallorca 272, 08037 Barcelona
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by the SM Foundation together with the are already classics of the LIJ. I would like to
APPLICATION LETTER TO following institutions: Centro Regional for
the Promotion of Books in Latin America
make a special mention to the fact many of
them are about sensitive and conflictive
THE HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN and the Caribbean (CERLALC), International
Board on Books for Young People (IBBY),
topics that interest and concern young
readers, as well as about the defence of
AWARD 2020
Organization of Ibero-American States for human rights and movements changing our
Education, Science and Culture (OEI), and society”.
the Regional Office of Education for Latin For all these reasons, I firmly believe that
America and the Caribbean of the United Jordi Sierra i Fabra is an extraordinary
Dear President and Jury members: the extinction of indigenous tribes in Brazil, Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural candidate for the highest award, the
the struggle in Chiapas (A Man with a Fork Organization (UNESCO / OREALC); with Andersen Prize, and I would ask you to
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have been really very fortunate to meet in a Land of Soups) and the massacres of the collaboration of the International Book consider his whole work that way.
Jordi Sierra i Fabra when I was beginning peasants in Guatemala. A recurring theme Fair of Guadalajara (FIL), where the prize is
as an editor of books for children and on his work is the problems faced by youth presented. Thank you so much. Kind regards.
young people in the 80s. From that times, as in Friday night, We Will Never be Rock I would like to highlight a paragraph of the
often waiting on an airport or during long Stars, Six Stories about Mario or Fields of Jury minutes: “The outstanding renovating
trips across the Atlantic, or having a coffee Strawberries. will, the tireless creativity and the overflowing
on my desk, we have shared our points of Jordi deals with all these topics through versatility of the set of his work, as well as his
view on literature in general and, in particular, a well documented literature rich in agile style, direct and clear, which is close to María Jesús Gil
on that intended to be read by children and situations, creating atmospheres, plots readers of the different Spanish-speaking IBBY Honorary
young people. In addition, I have had the and strong and credible characters. countries, having transcended their novels
honour of publishing a good number of his When studying Jordi’s work it is to other languages through multiple Member
most outstanding works. important to take into account his three translations published in Europe, Asia, Madrid,
I would like to share with you some of my great hobbies: music, travelling and America and Oceania. Many of Jordi’s novels 15th October, 2018
impressions about Jordi’s work. To begin with, cinema, which will be one of the main
and to understand better his work, I consider sources of inspiration for his literature.
relevant what the author says about himself:
“I have always been an impenitent traveler, a
devourer of images and words, a perplexed
During his lecture at the 27th IBBY
International Congress in Cartagena de Indias
in 2002, the author said: “My commitment
REASONS FOR THIS NOMINATION
visionary, frightened, happy, in love and is based on telling what I have seen and
by Reina Duarte
above all in solidarity with what I have seen. fighting for what I believe in”. “There are Publisher Director of EDEBE, former IBBY Vice
I am also an astonished child who does not authors who assume the risk of being less
renounce to dreams, utopia and the passion pleasant and more real, because we have
President and Former member of the HCA Award Jury
to imagine that all could be inside a book. I gone through a world that only showing it
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firmy believe that hope is the great weapon can be improved by future generations. That t is an honour for me to introduce Jordi his subjects, his different points of view, his
of our faith. But we must feed our hope with is our commitment”. “I advocate that we Sierra i Fabra to IBBY’s 2020 Hans Christian impressive list of awards and so on. However,
acts, gestures, help, strength, and words. also accept the commitment to tell the truth Andersen Jury as Spanish Author candidate. when I want to be honest with myself, I have
That is why every book we write is an act of wherever we are and offer it to our readers My first contact with him was as a reader, to say that the most important challenge that
faith and hope. And each reader is the final with passion and honestly”. when I was a young adult. Then, Spain had this big writer has won is other.
reward.” His commitment is based on being honest lived under a dictatorship for 40 years and my He changed a country of readers who had not
This statement summarizes well what the and writing what he have seen and in favourite books were always translations from found books for them. He changed not only
author has devoted to his extensive work denouncing unfair situations to try to get a other languages. When I read “La Revolución my generation as reader, so as person, plus
in which, through all genres, science fiction, better world for children and young people. del 32 de Triciembre”, by Jordi Sierra I Fabra, I a lot of the following generations (eighties,
poetry, crime fiction, humor, fantasy etc... As a result of this commitment to literature discovered a close and strong voice, someone nineties, millennials), and not only from Spain,
has touched on very diverse topics: war, the and young people, Jordi has obtained the who spoke with freedom about other young from other countries of Latin America too,
labor exploitation of children (The Music of highest awards in Spanish language such people who wanted to live in peace, making because he never stops writing, never. And
the Wind ), drugs, slavery, refugee children as The National LIJ Award for “Kafka and love, not war. Yes, the main characters were yes, he writes about all the subjects (human
(The wings of the sun), organ transplantation, the Traveling Doll” in 2007, the Cervantes hippies, but I had never read a novel about rights, ecology, science fiction, love, war,
youth violence, drugs, intolerance, racism, Chico in 2012, the Gold Medal for Merit in this kind of characters. It was magic! feelings, history…), because he lives with us
emigration, the power of new technologies, the Fine Arts in 2017, the Creu de Sant Jordi Some years later, I became an Editor, a in the last Century and nowadays, and he is
animals in danger of extinction, some of the of the Generalitat de Catalunya in 2018, and Children’s and young adult Editor, and I had the worried about the same things like us.
great issues that have plagued Latin America the considered the most important prize in opportunity to meet him in person, to contract Jordi Sierra I Fabra is a writer who makes
in recent decades: the Chilean and Argentine Spanish language: The Ibero-American Prize his novels, to publish some of his books. children and young adults fall in love of
dictatorships (The Memory of Lost Beings), in 2013. This Prize is summoned annually I could speak to all of you about his literature, reading.
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“THE ONLY THING I AM
life as a writer, which is what has a real meaning writing until I found Colombia. And I could asist
to me. I don’t come to terms with anybody, it is over one hundred thousand children each year.
not worth it. I hope aswell to shut up the mouth I have seen the power of a book has in changing
IS A WRITER”
of more than one assholes who think I have 50 a person, the smile of a boy receiving one, this
Chinese writing for me since 40 years —what feeling that sets you in the right place and in the
a country Spain is!— I do everything alone. I right moment doing things that transcend the
have always worked alone. I love writing and fact of invented stories. It’s somehing exciting,
I respect my profession. When I was a child I unpayable.
INTERVIEW BY JOSÉ R. CORTÉS CRIADO (*) CLIJ MAGAZINE #251 dated everything I did and I continue in doing
so. I have all my works documented. When Now you are sixty five, you write and publish
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an idea comes to me whenever and wherever novels more often than in the past. What is
ordi Sierra i Fabra is a tireless writer Critics and historians must answerd that. I don’t it apperas, I date the pages. Everybody could the secret to have this creative ability?
who keeps writing with the passion think there are new things in my books. I still write create a diary by taking these references that There is no secret, it is only work and pleasure.
of a beginner. For him, life is about as I would be ten or twelve years ago. Dialogues, appears in every singleof my books. They can I cannot disconnect it. I feel alive and I never
writing and without it he woud never short sentences, vertiginous chapters, intense see how has my existence been as a writer and give up my curiosity. The day I leave bechind
be anything. narrative… I always look after the suprise, the a traveller. While reviewing my life in this way, in my curiosity, I will begin to die. Also I have fear
He celebrated his fourty years writing on risk, and, specially, the commitment. Books the prologue, Victoria Fernández says that it is of dying. It is a defense mechanism. The older
2012 with a book called ‘My (first) 400 books are powerful tools to denounce things and to possible to read it as a novel, and that, to me, I am the more I like to write. I don’t waste my
– Jordi Sierra i Fabra literary memories’ and raise awareness about them to open minds, is the best. By making a book about a personal time, I have great ideas, I feel alive and I feel
he is still writting with frenetic rhythm. In this to touch sensitive issues. This is my style and I experience, I show what I have always be: a happier than ever. Five years ago I overcame an
interview he shows himself as he is: vitalist, was born and I will die with it. I have always tried novelist. aggressive cancer. The day after I knew about
sincere, enthusiastically, risky and tell us to learn and to progress. In my memories I talk it, I woke up and I wrote 15 pages of the novel
about the support his foundations provide about failures, even more than about sucesses. In your beginnings you wrote detective crime I was writing. And the following day, 16 pages
to young novelists. He thinks it is necessary Failures help you to grow up, to shape yourself. novels and music had a lot of presence in more…That summer was like that. I reflected
to promote the pleassure of reading and World changes along fourty years, but if you are your books. Then you faced the reality, you on death although I knew that I was not going to
writing. He believes in the power of books in still faithfull with your thoughts you progress. I left the music, and you started writing about die. I understood that in the case I would reach
changing people. write better now than I did when I was fourty problems who affect people. Now we can whatever I would reach, I have to die being what
and I hope I’ll think the same when I am be 80. read in your memory book that you are in a I allways have beeng. Maybe I am a romantic
Although there are people who said fourty This means I will grow up as human and a writer. stage called ‘Lighting years’. What do you person, I don’t know, but it is my behaviour. In
years are nothing, I wonder what are fourty mean by that? six months, cancer went away but I think about
years for you. Have you changed a lot as human and as a I published my first book at the age of 25, my these memories as a legacy to avoid the noise
Not only I have been writing for fourty years but writer? first novel at the age of 28. I then realised that that would follow my death, the meaning of my
I have sixty five years of life. Incredible, it has I don`t think so. People around me say I am still I started to write well at the age of 35 and the books…I need to put in order this chaos that
passed like a gust of wind. I am still a child with being the same donkey (in the best sense, I like massive success begun around my forties. It represent for the rest the fact that I have wrote a
hunger of travelling, creating stories, writting, having fun, being optimistic, being a dreamer, I was a natural progress, logical, the importance lot. I wanted to send aswell a letter to my sons
doing things… And suddenly, I’m old. How always laugh…) The gallons haven’t went up of a life lived step by step, without brags, neither and my grandchildren. My letter was book of
and when has this happened? I have realised to me, I am still talking with people, listening to Hollywood making movies or Coca Cola giving memories. It is simple, writen naturaly. Should I
about it while writing my memories and it is truly everyone who has something to say me and away my characters in pins. And I’m happy and continue living beyond 100 years old, there will
overwhelming. receiveng them at my home. I have opened my proud of it because siren songs are constant be a second part.
Foundation to share, not to lock myself up in a threats. Firstly, I was a rocker who wrote, then I
What is left of rocker Jordi? tower. was a young autor who cames from rock, then… Last autumn, the first number of The written
Everything and anything. I am still whom I Everybody puts tags on me but the only thing I page magazine, created for young audience
was, the same heart and spirit. This is part of You have just published ‘My (first) 400 books am is a writer. I jump from a theme to another was born. What was the needed to publish it?
my breath of life. Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Dylan, Jordi Sierra i Fabra literary memories’. What one, I am curious. I write about everything for When I opened my Foundations in 2004 I
Springsteen songs are what feed me. But now I is relevant in its pages? everybody. Just that. It`s true that I went into designed the magazine as a resource to form
don’t have long hair or rocker clothes anymore. The story is about a boy who dreams about realistic novels in early nineties, when I travelled new writers and as a support for teachers and
We have to burn stages in life. I left the music being a writer, since the age of 8, and everybody around the world; I felt it in my body. This defined librarians. Also I wrote my method, with the
behind in order to be free, to be able to travel thrashes him. It is the story of a boy who never my literature. I called ‘Lightning years’ the stage same title, and it was published in 2006. But
around Asia, Africa or Latin Americ, without any gave up, who was selfconfident and it is also the that starts on the XXI century because it has in 2004 we were only three persons in Medellin
tie. Today I take on my condition of writer with a story about an adult who keeps respecting his being the happiest stage of my life: I get a full and in Barcelona I was alone. Now I have an
past marked forever. dream after he has achieved it, without betraying realization, I write the best novels, I get national incredible staff and the people who volunteer,
it ever. I didn’t show off my music experiences, and international recognition, more awards, and proffesionals, amateurs…In this magazine
What things are new in your literature I’m not a rocker, I don’t show the tours, interviews especially, my Foundations in Barcelona and in anybody charges, it is something made by
compared with those from your beginnings? or parties. These are only things connected with Medellín. I thought that I couldn’t be happier than hand. Everybody believes on that project and
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INTERVIEW phone to the 30 finalists of my award, I want to
let them understand that. I also write a letter to
University. This is not casuality.
encourage them to continue. We live in a crazy You are the 8th autor most readed in Spain
world and someone has to put sanity. That is schools.
they understand its sense. There is nothing few that all of the things that America Latina has the most difficult thing. This is only a tag. The day that someone tells
similar to it and the response was wonderful in allways given to me in some many aspects. you: Did you know you are the spain author who
Spain and in Latin America. For instance, Which The VII Jordi Sierra i Fabra award four young has more books published? I was frightened
magazine publishes poems and short stories You will open a base in Barcelona at last writers has being celebrated this year. It is because since this moment I know I have this
with the endorsemnet of a Foundation? Yes. In Medellin we have two floors and a consolidated award in Literature. Do you tag. It was happend the same ten years ago
Colombia Bank gave us a local (without asking) think it was necessary this award? about the most readed authors. The first ones
Do you think Jordi Sierra i Fabra Foundation to promote a writer and an ilustrator school, 92 books competed in this VII edition and we were Becquer, Lorca, Galdós, Baroja… They
has reached its goals? where many people are working now. In Spain have received 111 for the next one that we will were all dead. We only still alive Delibes, García
I pushed it as a if it was a vital need and we are instead… Nothing. There, one euro lasts celebrate the next february. Do we have to ask Marquez and me. García Márquez was the 7th,
on the way. If life brings you a gift, give the gift more. Two years ago I understood that I had the reason of an award like this? Numbers say I was the 8th and Camilo José Cela the 9th. It
back a 10% to life. This is something normal to win a great award to open my Foundation in everything. This summer, 111 girls and boys was a honor for me but it was in 2002. A lot of
in a musical context, rock stars support a lot Barcelona. So I presented a novel to Torrevieja wrote their own novel, in some many cases their time has passed. Maybe now I am the 27th but
of solidarity causes, but in literature… Along Award and I won. It was no easy, I competed first one and just only because there is a place there is no more polls to check it.
the years, while going to schools, I met boys with 524 books of 11 countries. With this to send it. If you don’t give them opportunities,
and girls who reminded me of who I was at 360.000 euros I bought a local in Sants district. It then don’t complaint. The boy who won the Comeback to the present. What do you feel
their age, with dreams that have not apparent will be inaugurated during the first three months first award, Arturo Padilla, has four novels knowing you have sold ten millions of books?
exist because they were not selfconfident or, as of 2013. Works have being very expensive published. The girl who won the year after is a We are speaking about Spain, so this is a huge
in the case of my father, because their familiy too. There will be a library, a study center, a journalist in Madrid… She collaborates in the numbre, incredible, although it has taken 40
don’t let their write. I realised there is nothing multimedia space, there will be a speaker’s magazine ‘The Written Page’. I don’t think the years. Then, someone tells you J.K. Rowlling
and nobody supporting this kids. It is in the zone and of course there will have an exhibition 111 aspirants this year or the 92 who competed sells that in one week with her Harry Potter and
teenage years when your dreams are born and with my originals, scripts, young novels, draws, last year will be writters but the fact of dare with you have to laugh. Well, I think it is incredible,
you make them strong. I have persevered but my old machines, tables where I wrote, awards, a novel is a gift, the pleasure of writing is unique. especially because the audience is renovated
how many young boys have it now? All seems memories…I save everything. All of the shapes of Art, to know how to play an each five years and new readers still reading
to go so fast. I need to create an award for instrument, drawing or painting… It is a gift that it me. Some of them have being read me in the
young writters, to develope new ideas, formative Why this strive to promote younger writters? makes you a better person. There are countries last 20 or 25 years. It is incredible. But I still be
programmes… Well, my instinct always leads Is there any future? in Europe where the 4% students learn music. anonymous. I might be the most famous author
me. The only trouble was money because I have I believe in that cause. And yes, there is a lot of Here they only are the 0,4% and the school anonymous. I don’t appear on TV shows, I
no support, everything goes from my author’s future. Impatience kills them because they want removes these hours because it is not useful. If like the discretion. I wouldn’t resist a paparazzi
righst. I’m not rich. I just support what I can. toe at the world before time. So the essential is we not cultivate the spirit… Then… ¿are we all making pictures of me in a desert island where
Adults must transmite our knowledge to young to prepare them for this long waiting. Recently, materialistics? I help young people for that, and I usually go to prepare scripts. The most
people, is law of life. Iwould be bitter to die I girl with 15 years old wrote me to tell me that I encourage them to continue because there is important is to put your feet on the ground and
keeping all that knowledge, it would be selfish. she was goint to give up, discouraged, because no formative schools in this area. to know which is your role on life.
After 8 years I think the two Foundations have three publishing house has give back her book.
given more than we expected. And we are still I shouted at her….I said that she has to write ten In 2009, the library of IES María Zambrano in What will be the future for Jordi Sierra i Fabra
being modest. The goal is to form future writers books more, one each year, probably without Torre del Mar (Málaga) was called Jordi Sierra followers?
and to comunicate the pleasure of reading. It sharing anybody —this mania of publishing i Fabra. What did this distinction entail? Work, illusion, more novels, more stories, more
was wonderful when in 2010 we received the everything in Internet to get opinions…— to be When you die, a library or a school received your love, sincerity, the same creative avalanche,
Ibby-Asahi award to promote reading, the most able to publish, with luck, at her twenties. It is so name. Great. But it is no sense for you. If you are until my body wants…This is what I can offer.As
important world award for recognized that. difficult to them to understand that. Everything alive to see it is magic. It was a gift for me. Anyway, I always said, I will rest when I die.
We compited with countries as United States, is fast. To be famous at first like in Big Brother. there is a lot of places in Spain where, for some
Japan, Canadá, México… Also is important But ¿Learn? ¿To be prepared? ¡Nothing at all! reasons, I have a special relation and Malaga is
that 50 spanish writers and ilustrators went That is not the point, this is not to be a writter. one of them. There, I introduced one of my first (*) José R.
to Medellín and everybody cameback in love Writing one, two or ten books is not being a novels and ‘Strawberry fields’ is one of the most Cortés Criado
with the city and with my people. To some of writer. Being a writer is something more. Art requested books in libraries, more than Lorca is the author of
them this travel has changed their lifes. Alfredo doesn’t measure because of the money or the and Unamuno!... The same as in Extremadura, “The social commitment
Gómez Cerdá wrote ‘Mud of Medellín’ in his first fame yo have, you have to feel what you make. Asturias, Catalunya, and more places…But in the work of Jordi Sierra
visit and with that novel won the National Prize. This is your reward. Obviously, when you have when everything happens at the same time in i Fabra (1983-2003)”,
This is motivation. I have open two Foundations 15 years old you don’t think about you have the the same place is wonderful. In Málaga, you have Extraordinary Doctorate
because of a simple reason: I have my roots in rest of your life to write. This is not a retirable job writen the first doctoral thesis of my work and Award and Cum Laude
Barcelona but in Colombia I give back only a so there is much time. For this reason I call by it was recognized whit an extraordinary prize in for the doctoral thesis
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JORDI SIERRA I FABRA
By his altruistic personality, he opened books and politics novels.
Foundations in Barcelona and in Medellín
with the goal to promote culture and arts The reflexion years. 1982 – 1985. This is
INSTINCT, INTUITION
between young people. They promote the an inflection point in his work; the author
Literature Award Sierra i Fabra for young begins to wonder about his role on the
writers since 2005. world and a reflexion about his career.
AND PASSION
The increasing years. 1985 – 1992. He
left the musical themes and he began to
FREEDOM DOESN’T ADMIT travel around the world reporting unjust
METHODS OR MANUALS situations.
STUDY BY ANABEL SÁIZ RIPOLL, Jordi Sierra i Fabra is a lively person, a The realistic years. 1992 – 2001. His work
PHD IN PHILOLOGY AND PROFESSOR OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE tireless traveller, he loves cinema and he could be defined as critical realism, with
has studied contemporary music —“It seriousness, he ignores nothing even if is
is part of my life (…) without music life a difficult subject
Jordi Sierra i Fabra (Barcelona, 26-7-1947) would be bored and uninteresting”—.
INTRODUCCIÓN has been written since childhood, in spite He knows better than anybody how to The lightning years. 2001 – 2018. This
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ordi Sierra i Fabra is, without any of his father’s and teacher’s opposition. He energize and vitalize his work. He doesn’t is the current stage where his work has
doubt, the Spanish author who has has always known his way. His first contact consider himself a genius, just a worker. been consolidated going deeper into the
more books published than any other. with a big audience was in rock music, in The numbers and diversity of his work human being, in its lights and its shadows,
His very large work could be the theme of ‘The Big Musical’ (Cadena Ser). Before are respected. He is a writer who catches in misseries and the possibilities we have
many doctoral thesis. He likes the novel his thirties he founded and directed the you and doesn’t leave you indifferent. as human society.
genre but he has involved himself in short most important musical magazines at that Reading his declarations or speaking with
novel, poetry, and in haikus ass well. time in Spain: ‘Disco Express’, ‘Popular him we understand why he is obsessed At this moment, his production is in its last
1’, ‘Top Magazine’, ‘Super Pop’…He also about writing: “Writing is my passion and stages, the most solid and full years with
With a lot of books published and almost worked on the radio with a programme my head is an erupting volcano. On the the most compromise and quality literature.
50 years writing, Jordi Sierra i Fabra is called ‘Informative weekly about pop other hand, writing comes to me easy; it So we must review some of the books he
still unbeatable and versatile in Spanish music’ (1974-78). He wrote ‘The story is a blessing. Even if I have this skill, the has written during his latest years.
literature. He focuses about the actuality. of rock music (1981 – 83) and ‘The big investigation process takes many years”.
He is in a hurry, he moves with agility. rock encyclopaedia from A to Z’ (1993-
His mind spins until he has a good idea 4). Jordi Sierra i Fabra carries a rocker at It would be a mistake to approach his
and then, the process is frenetic. He has heart. Many of his stories have an original books with a close mind; we need to try WRITING IS STILL ALIVE
written about many subjects: sci-fi novels, soundtrack. to understand his stories with calmness Sierra i Fabra stories have plenty of
ecology, wars, slavery, rock music, to capture their essence. Even though strength, force, energy and honesty. Step
adolescence, drugs, violence, indigenous Sierra i Fabra is one of the most he has a extensive production, there is a by step, we are infected by his intensity
tribes, towns in danger, new technologies, prizewinner and recognised authors in the only minimum selection of titles that we and hope.
opera, dictatorships, philosophy, contemporary Literature. In 1975 he won can highlight. “I made mistakes but there
history… Sierra i Fabra does not shut up, Villa de Bilbao Prize with ‘The revolution of were my mistakes. Life is short and I have -“There are five words in my ‘book of
he needs to denounce the harms of a triciembre the 32th’ and then 41 awards a lot of things inside to give. I don’t force life’: peace, love, honesty, respect and
dark society. We could say he is the last more until 2018, the year that he won anybody to buy my books but I force myself hope”. Jordi Sierra i Fabra is a fighter and
romantic, as many of his characters. He is Sant Jordi cross. For instance, some of to write them. I have this compromise with he doesn’t stop due to obstacles. When
intuitive, visceral, pacifist… Sierra i Fabra these awards are National Prize (2007), life”. He is a man with principles; he knows he is interested on something he tells it
believes in freedom and he hates any kind Ibby-Asahi to Promote Reading (2010, to what and why he wants to do something. without censorship. “Behind each book, I
of violence. He doesn’t write to sweeten his Foundation), Barco de Vapor (2012), He is a free spirit and he runs away from have a story to tell. Maybe it will not be
problems or do didactic readings. Iberoamericano (2013), Anaya (2013) or restrictions. “I am a ordinary author and released at the end but it is useful to me. I
He believes in life and in its power, in Edebé (2016). He has the Barcelona Medal that annoys a lot of people”. feel the passion living inside me and I try to
solidarity, in human beings. He thinks it is of Honour (2015) and The Gold Medal of squeeze it in any way I can”.
possible to act in some different ways to Arts (2017). He shows his development in his memory
change injustice or pain. As a writer, he book ‘My first 400 books’ (2012). If we His communication power is amazing and
has this need and must do it. He writes His books are written in Spanish and follow the text structure, we will find out he moves as a fish on the water along
with urgency and power because there is also in Catalan language and have been his personal career and production: different territories of literary creation.
no time to loose and there still be many translated to more than 30 languages and From the most playful exercise to the
causes to fight for. many readers keep discovering his stories. The rocker years. 1971 -1982. Musical most compromise themes of his time like
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STUDY camp in ‘The wings of the sun’ or about
the babies trafficking in the time of South
With ‘Stories about great pictures’ (2016)
we can go to a museum to find hidden
America’s dictatorships in ‘The memory of stories behind some of the pictures that
lost beings’. He lets us realise the problems shocked the author.
drugs, racism, wars, disenchanted youth, cause suffering, it should be the reason of young people in this imbalance society.
violence, loneliness…Sierra i Fabra is for life, a reason that moves you to get On one hand, they have everything but on
absolutely compromised with his time. He up in the morning: “You don’t choose to the other hand, modernity society causes
has an overwhelming sincerity and visceral be a writer, it just happens. In my case, them personality problems, anxiety…Sierra YOUNG PEOPLE IN TRANSIT
curiosity. He faces problems that move it is a pleasure and it doesn’t take other i Fabra literature says “stop”. Feelings must Young characters in his work were males
him and he takes them to a novel with arguments. I just live by what I write, it has not be treated as something frivolous. at first and since the nineties are females.
sensibility, intelligence and energy: “There become an obsession”. Sierra i Fabra is ‘Friday night’, ‘We’ll never be rock stars’, They appear pretty defined. They usually
are moments when you cannot avoid to fighting against time and that is why he ‘Six stories around Mario’ and ‘Strawberry are about 16, 17, 18, 19 years old with
keep a compromise because there is a writes. He wants to tell the most stories fields’ are just an example. He doesn’t a problem —a family conflict, a social or
feeling that hurts. This is the present and and experiences as possible. “Before I forget difficult aspects of this society like an affective problem—. To overcome this,
that is what worries me”. die I want to write the more I can, I want terrorism, the ETA conflict appears in ‘The they can take the fast way —drugs— or
to empty myself”. He thinks a lot about time of forgetfulness’. At last, to overcome their work and their personal will, their
Sierra i Fabra writes because he loves it. the stories, he caresses them in his mind, these themes, he writes humour stories to own effort in a false society that seems
He writes what he feels and how he feels he spins them, he takes notes until they have fun: ‘Victor and company books’ or everything is easy when this is just a mirage
it, without thinking about if it is profitable or come out and flow free without ties. So the galactic heroe ‘Zack Galaxy’. We also and the reality is the unemployment and
not. He does not write for young people or then is that he begins to write, after the find society criticism between jokes. the lack of resources and opportunities.
adults, he writes for himself and all kinds search and the compilation process. “My They are romantics as the author in the
of people. He enjoys doing it because he method is based on travelling, I travel a In this XXI century, Sierra i Fabra has sense of his rebelliousness, the search of
feels a story brewing and it needs to come lot. I prepare the argument, the script, in continued with his ‘Lightful years’. There are his freedom, the desire to reach his own
out. He does not think in a prototype of a hotel or in a plane and then I sit down more accommodating times, stories with destiny, to find a place in the world. They
reader when he writes: “I don’t believe in and I write the book in a week. I would say greater significance because of his travels, have passion in their life, in their projects
youth novels. When I write a book I don’t I write quickly but I think slow”. We can his personal compromise with the world and their relationships even in their failures.
think about who is going to read it. I just understand his peculiarity. The continuous and his evolution as human beings. ‘The
write it. It can be read by anybody. I don’t writing is a school, a method of learning: wire girls’ (1999) is about anorexia ‘Víctor In ‘The last miwok summer’ (1987), David,
think my books are youth books”. It’s fine the more you write, you better write. And Jara (bursting silences) (1999) is about the the main character, is a boy who has a
if adolescents or children read them but that’s the important thing: to write better last days of this Chilean songwriter; ‘Rage’ goal: he wants to meet his father. John
he doesn’t choose the subject because every day. (2000) is about adolescence feelings which Lennon star in his early years one of his
of that. The stories he writes are authentic nobody understands; ‘The murder of a most successful books, ‘Young Lennon
and not only are read by young people. We can observe two narrative areas that Mathematics teacher’ (2000), a new way to (1988)’. This a story about his learning
Sometimes adults are interested as well in complement each other like concentric understand Maths; ‘In a place called war’ years, the author wrote the embryo of all
his books because they reminisce stories circles. The novels he wrote in the eighties (2002), about a journalist in an fictional war; that happened after, The Beatles…Jordi
from the past. were more fictional like ‘The hunter’, the ‘The soldier and the girl’ (2003), a beautiful Sierra i Fabra couldn’t meet John Lennon
trilogy of ‘The cycle of lands’, The last story about pacifism; ‘Sensitive material. but he met the rest of The Beatles. He
miwok summer’, ‘Young Lennon’ or ‘The Cruel stories’ (2005), distress and essential always feels next to him, he considers
ballad of XXI century’. stories; ‘Kafka and the traveller doll’ (2006), Lennon his big brother. This novel is about
SIERRA I FABRA’S STYLE an emotional story about the last days of his adolescence, his musical passion, his
Jordi Sierra i Fabra has a kind of satellite Since the nineties, he approaches other Kafka; ‘A sweet story about butterflies rebelliousness and his family relations.
dish that captures future events to themes with more compromise. We and dragonflies’ (2008), another emotional
denounce them. He is a visionary. After a found critic realism in his first works and story that goes deep into a human being; Vicente Prats is 17 years old. He is the main
month of publishing ‘A man with a fork in a he develops them. In the last century ‘Tears of blood’ (2008) about gender character on ‘Soundtrack’ (1993) and he
land of soaps’ (1998) the Chiapas slaughter Sierra i Fabra has talked about problems violence; ‘Diego wars’ (2009) about the wants to change his life in a special way.
started. He also has written Casting like the ethnic groups disappearance in History of Spain; ‘The poet island’ (2009) He wants to be a professional musician and
(2002) about an influence TV programme ‘Kaopi’ (1993) or in ‘A plastic bag of chips about a literary creation and its mysteries; he asks his father for help but he doesn’t
before ‘Operación Triunfo’ arrived and ‘My in Polynesia’ (2018). He also has talked ‘The teacher Palermo’s extraordinary have much relation with him because
brother’s war (2004) before the invasion of about Moroccan immigrant problems in ingenuity speaker’ (2012), a story about he broke up with his mother. There are
Irak. ‘Moon night in the narrow’ or in ‘Clouds love and magic; ‘Where the wind returns’ many characters in Sierra i Fabra work
in the sky’ (2008); about child exploitation (2007), about the guerrilla in Guatemala; who have no father or they abandon their
Not always the best work is the one in India in ‘The music of wind’; about the ‘What I think (about everything)’ (2018), a sons... This meeting is positive, gives them
that takes more effort behind or the one Chiapas conflict in ‘A man with a fork in a story written in first person, about a young maturity. The father is always important to
that is more painful. Writing must not land of soups’; about problems in a refugee boy who wonders about his surroundings. Sierra i Fabra characters, even if he has
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to continue with her career only under her
change as the story goes on. ‘Story of
a second’ (2010) is another love story.
own conditions that are play tennis to have Two adolescents are separated because
fun. There are many female characters of their different social status. Temporal
died. In ‘The Diego’s wars’ there is a father look for adventure, he just run away from in ‘The inside voice’. There is a college aspect is basic. Sometimes the most
who has left home in a peace mission and himself, from his familiar problem. of nuns with a group of girls with some important thing in our lifes happens in
there is a pacifist grandfather in contrast to weakness, frailties but also with so many one second, just a moment. ‘A little bit of
compare. In ‘My brother’s war’ there is a Mario is another example of social and interests. There is a psychological analyse April, some of May and all of September’
violent familiar excision. Marcos goes to a familiar problems in ‘Six stories around about these five girls. They are friends and (2011) is another love story with a hard
war and his father is proud of him. On the Mario’ (1995). Mario has 19 years old they have fears and doubts. The affect, background because the main character
other hand, Gabriel goes to many anti-war and he is the youngest of three brothers. the tenderness and comprehension of the is HIV positive.
and pacifists protests. A family divided like He has lived a special childhood, very female characters are so important. Jordi
society itself. protective by his mother. He grows up in shows how girls are more intelligent than
a family with a lot of money and he gets boys and they open the way.
In ‘The time of forgetfulness’ (1993) Carlos hooked on drugs. Finally, he suffers an NOT EVERYTHING IS ALLOWED
looks for the killer of his father who died overdose and he dies. Nobody is to blame Almost in the XXI century, Sierra i Fabra IN WAR
in a terrorist act. He arrives at the Basque for this but everybody causes the Mario takes another round beginning to write
Country and meets Tetxu, the son of the disenchantment with life. In ‘A man with about sensitive subjects. In ‘The wire girls’ Jordi Sierra i Fabra denounces wars and
man who killed his father ten years ago. a fork in a land of soups’ Isaac lives an he approach the cruelty of the anorexia atrocities. Diego’s grandfather talks about
It was a mistake. They get on well and adventure in Chiapas. He wants to know world. In ‘Without time to dream’ (2006) useless wars in ‘The Diego’s wars’. He
their friendship is stronger than the hate the reason about his brother’s suicide, Marta has beeng murdered and Julia and talks about the war in which his father
that Carlos feels. who was a famous journalist at the time. Gil, Journalism students, beginning to was hurt and the wars that rased Spain
investigate the facts. They find out a hard since ever. He warns about the dangers
Mothers are also important. They are In ‘Out of the game’ (2005) Isidro is a boy truth, full of pain. In ‘Broken dreams’ (2011) of thinking of being right with calm and
usually alone; they had to raise their in a crossroad. He is 17 years old and Niaga can travel to Gambia in summer. It passion. In ‘Don’t take photos to soldiers
children by themselves. They also have to he is beginning his career as a football is a good new but her friend Elsa thinks crying’ the author treats the inside of a
overcome a divorce and their sons try to player. He has to decide what is the most that there could be a dark reason for that war, what is behind the battles and deaths,
know the truth. They suffer but they are important for him, money and ambition or travel. Sierra i Fabra denounces ablation in the people who gets involved in conflicts,
full of tenderness. As it happened with his studies, the love and the sport that he an intelligent and sensitive way. Frontera usually the most vulnerable. In ‘Where
John Lennon and his mother Julia, all the really likes: basketball. In ‘Special effects’ (2003) is about a Moroccan girl, Amina. the wind returns’ (2001) there is not a war
Sierra i Fabra young characters have a (2014) Antonio is in a crucial moment. Her parents want to send her to Morocco but there is an extreme situation, the life
special relationship with their mothers. He is an athlete and he has to take some to get married with an old man. Amina in Guatemala guerrilla. Why a 12 year old
They would be able to kill because of important decisions in a race. The author fights for her freedom and she has a very boy leaves his world to follow the guerrilla?
them (The morning star, 1996’) or to shows the light and the darkness of being good friend, Estefanía, to help her. ‘Nude’ In ‘My brother’s war’ (2004) Marcos has
forgive a lie (Estela feels affect for her an athlete in the elite. Parco (‘Parco 2013’) (2014) is another book of compromise and to move in a peace mission to a conflict
adoptive mother even though she hates is the nickname of a boy who just entered social denounce. Marga, a girl frightened zone and his pacifist brother Gabriel is
her father in ‘The memory of lost beings’, a juvenile protection center. He is accused by her boyfriend. She just wants to be going to join several anti-war and pacifism
1998). of a murder and he lives to the limit. It is herself without any fears. protests. In ‘A place called war’ Néstor is
one of the most shocking novels written a young journalist and he goes as a war
These adolescences are usually by Jordi Sierra i Fabra because of his style Love appears in some many books. Jordi correspondent to an old URSS Republic.
disorientated as Mariano, Ismael, Lázaro, and the hard situations approached. Parco Sierra I Fabra treats love with lyricism: “I’m a He meets a boy called Milo who is going
Serafín and José Luis in ‘Friday night’ is not a disorientated boy, he is a person sentimental, emotive and romantic person. to change his life. Sierra I Fabra focuses in
(1993). They have problems and they feel being on the ropes, the person who bears I believe in love (…). In my books there are the most vulnerable people who receives
loneliness. Sierra I Fabra writes in this a blame which is not his blame. no many sex scenes, it is not necessary, the worst part in wars.
novel about the conflict in this evolution but characters are alive and they have
to maturity, about social and sentimental There are also many girls as the main feelings like us”. Love is a constant theme ‘The soldier and the girl’ (2003) is an anti-
problems. Ventura, 19 years old, is the characters. ‘The last set’ (1991), ‘The but it is not the essential. ‘Morning star’ war book. A soldier who is going to die by
main character in ‘We’ll never be rock inside voice’ (1997) or ‘The memory of lost (1996) is an exception. This is a real love a bullet sees a girl, the real death. She talks
stars’ (1993). He is a good reader, he loves beings’ (1998). In the first one, Virginia story between Beatriz, a high-class girl, to him and makes him reflect on the absurd
music and cinema, but he has a problem has just won Roland Garros but she is and Joma, a low-class boy. He has a talent of wars. ‘The bomb’ (2004) shows the
with his father and he gets involved in in a difficult moment, she is disoriented for drawing but he has a disfuntional family. rear, wars and poisoned presents. Three
robberies and violence. He lives a difficult and she decides to hide herself at her His father is in prison and his mother suffer boys of an unknown place in the world find
moment and he has to face maturity when grandmother home, a retired tennis player. violence genre with her new partner. But a bomb. They think is a treasure until the
he only has one chance. Ventura doesn’t She reflects about her life and she gets love is stronger than anything. Characters reality imposes. Life is a continuous effort
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The structure has three different parts (the
Century’. The second one is an intrigue
novel, with elements of police and themes
concert, the night and the dawn) and a related with his life: rock music world, radio
prologue. Each part has different numbered and friends.
to Bishr and Mussy. They are 14 years old game. Lucy is in a coma after an overdose. moments, flashes, except the ones about
and they live in a trench in Siria. They know She is a really good chess player so during María, her final countdown, and the ones ‘The memory skin’ (2008) shows an often
what is being part of a armed movement. her coma she makes some movements about Leonardo, a man without motivations structure in Sierra i Fabra novels. It begins
‘The shout of the butterfly’ (2016) is one and this is what is going to give bring back who causes the accident. These parts with a prologue that is part of the story.
of the hardest and most moving stories by her life. begin with an alphabet letter. The reader Then, we can find 70 numbered chapters
Jordi Sierra i Fabra. is being involved with the specific place and an end with an epilogue written a few
There are different characters, her parents, and hour changes. ‘The last set’ (1991) is years later. ‘The shout of the butterfly’
her sister, the policemen, the journalist, structured like a tennis match. The author (2016) is ordered around different moments
her boyfriend, her friends, the drug dealer, mixes the sports with his passion: writing of the day: dawn, morning, afternoon,
A PERSONALITY FORGED her bulimic friend… They all move around and music and themes about reflexions… evening and night. The 40 numbered
NOVEL BY NOVEL Lucy. She thinks in first person and the Including The Virginia diary and the story chapters to adress a hard story. ‘The big
rest do it in third person. This is an agile that she is writing about a rock star that dream’ (2018) is a very documented novel.
Jordi novels are meticulous. He focuses story with lots of dialogues and action. has failed. He focuses on the American dream of five
on the structure and the narrative Sierra i Fabra likes multiple characters young people who travel to New York from
techniques. He knows how to use slow- stories. In ‘Six stories around Mario’ (1995) ‘Soundtrack’ (1993) shows a lineal story Barcelona’s port in 1881. They are going
tempo, flashbacks, perspectives, and something similar happens. Six characters with autobiography elements, many of to cross their lives in the new world..
monologues and sometimes he resorts to tell six stories about Mario, under their Jordi Sierra I Fabra rock music memories.
the omniscient narrator. Sierra i Fabra style own perspective. The author alternates There are 46 chapters and it is written Sierra i Fabra style is characteristic, direct,
could be defined as a cinematographic first person with third person. Mario thinks in third person. It has agility and there cutting. When he writes in third person
style. He uses short sentences, very few and says goodbye in the epilogue. The are lots of dialogues. ‘We’ll never be he doesn’t loose details or descriptions.
inflection moments, a lot of action and chapters order follows a final countdown. rock stars’ (1995) has more elaboration. The dialogue is crucial and he leaves his
dialogues to bring us the possibility to It is a chronicle of a death foretold. There The action happens in two days and the characters free to show them as themselves.
know the characters. are different perspectives also in ‘Without book is written in three different areas: Some of his novels are separated with
no return’ (2005). Jacinto is dead and the external adventure (third person), numbers and others are ordered in a
‘The hunter’ (1981) is organized in four there are different opinions about the the internal adventure (first person) and chronological way. Some of them begin
allegorical parts. First sign: the last night; facts. As sergeant Galindo says, his death external action. These are three different in the middle and he goes forward and
Second sign: the way; Third sign: the gives us more questions than answers. areas written with different typography. The backwards. Some of them show only one
hunting; Fourth sign: the enemies. All is There are no logical facts or evidences external rhythm is precisely and fast. This part of the story. Other ones are pieces of
shown in 110 small chapters connected although it seems so. ‘Clouds in the sky’ is a novel of learning that shows Ventura’s a rigorous puzzle. Nothing is for free in his
with his cinematographic style. The is about five adolescents from numerous way as a symbol to make him react. The style. He programmes everything in a very
chapters are hasty sequences in order countries. They are very different. This is author achieves the perspective with this thoughtful. There is nothing casual in his
to reach an overwhelming and fast end. a compromised novel about immigration, multiple point of view. ‘The boy who lived in work. Although a Sierra i Fabra novel is
The climax goes in ascends —the story integration and racism through these five the stars’ (1996) is written with clearness. slight, fast and energetic, there is a lot of
of a hunter who wants to sell his last prey crossed stories. There is a counterpoint between the work behind, a laborious documentation
alive— and at the end the reader breaks psychiatrist and the truth about this boy and a good previous work.
all the anguish and suffering kept along ‘Friday night’ (1993) is another exercise of who seems fallen from the stars. There
the personal adventure of the hunter. In perspectives. The author mixes first and are two parts and an epilogue. He takes
‘The last miwok summer’ David remember third person again to recreate the thoughts part in the plot and the resolution of his
his last summer with a Miwok Indian and of each character. They have their own story so he connects with readers. THE WRITER AND OTHER
with his father after 10 years without him. typography. The story begins with a slow CHARACTERS
There are two moments: the narrator time rhythm but has a fast and surprising ‘The sound of silence’ (1998) is written
in third person —maybe the father writing ending. Behaviorism is the technique in first person with flashbacks. The writer The writer is a key figure in Sierra i Fabra
the novel— and David time in first person used. The author leaves his characters remembers a story from the past. ‘The work and he has defined characteristics.
remembering this special summer from free and he just collects their words and XXI century ballad’ (1989) and ‘The killer Pablo Lafarga is a compulsive writer in
the past. Present and future are realities movements. There are several characters of Sgt. Pepper’s’ (1994) have the musical ‘The last miwok summer’ like Sierra i
against the past. The structure seems like also in ‘Badlands’ (1994). This is a hasty passion of Sierra I Fabra in their structure. Fabra. He doesn`t correct anything, he
a symphony with 9 movements. story in the end. The first one is written in first person and is has passion and energy. Ernesto is the old
structured like two albums. It also includes writer in ‘The last set’. He has clear ideas
‘Strawberry fields’ (1997) is structured As if it would be managed by destiny to press articles and different perspectives and he helps Virginia to reorient her life.
around different sequences like a chess get the heart that María needs to live, Cati, around the members of the band ‘XXI There are references about a writer who
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life: he visits Cuba to discover that his
in these stories.
grandfather is not dead as he thought. With ironic and a very affective way Sierra
He is a channel between himself and his i Fabra writes ‘Dear son: you are fired’
has visited the college in ‘The voice inside’. Lennon, Kaopi, The memory of lost beings’ past. His grandfather fought in the Cuban (2000) about very protected children. We
He talks about the compromise with life in or ‘The sound of the wind’ for example. Revolution and met Che Guevara. make them think that everything is possible
a passional way. In ‘Fresh news’ (Víctor’s The author involves himself in his work and and they become the family kings. Miguel
serie) a writer comes to his school to tell he wants the reader to do it as well. That’s is one of these boys. Her mother, tired of
him how to organize a newspaper. why he talks about or his reflexions. this, decides to fire her son to make him
LOCAL PROBLEMS realise his mistakes. It is a book with a lot
In ‘The odd people club’ (2015) Sierra The old man is another key figure to talk Jordi Sierra I Fabra involves himself with of irony and very critic as well.
I Fabra becomes himself in a fictional about the experience and the sanity in a young people society problems. He does it
character to visit Hugo’s school. He story. Young characters are disoriented with fairness. There is a social conscience Much of the Sierra I Fabra novels reflect
stutterers and creates a club, the odd most of time so he puts an old man in in his literature. the contradictions of the capitalist society
people club. Sierra i Fabra also stutterers front of them to give the perfect advice. declining. He doesn’t forget our recent
and, as he always does in school visits, In traditional societies, old men were in ‘Strawberry fields’ was a very important History and remember it like a conscience
he talks about it is possible to laugh at charge of Justice. In our societies this work. It is a story about designer drugs and voice to wake up this insensitive society.
oneself, doesn’t matter what the rest of the figure is changing by a “use it and throw young people who only live on weekends. ‘The fires of the memory’ (2007) is about
world think of you. When the writer signs it” culture and Jordi wants to claim to get They don’t stop moving their bodies and common graves after the Spanish Civil
Hugo’s book he tells him he overcame his it back. Old men are wise but sometimes dancing during two or three days. The War. They still need a review because we
stutterer the day that he didn’t care of that. they are considered as crazy people author doesn’t blame them. He just critizes must know and assimilate what happened
There is another Jordi Sierra I Fabra alter because they usually tell you as it is truth, this cruel and mean world, that get benefits to forgive and to live in peace.
ego in ‘What I think (about everything)’. He a truth that nobody wants to hear so it’s of pain, naivety and ignorance.
visits the school where Xavier is studying. better to dismiss it as crazy.
The poet Isaac Estruch has retired to a In ‘Badlands’ he treats donations of
little Caribbean island 20 years ago in ‘The ‘Tortuga Veloz in ‘The last miwok organs. He writes about the actions that OTHER LANDS, OTHER LIFES
poet island’. Isa decides to visit him and summer’ represents the tradition, the cause the death of a character, and give Sierra I Fabra involvement looks beyond
one night, during an emotive dialogue, truth, the origins, the land. Vicente life to other one. his setting. He is very interested in travels
Estruch speaks about his demons and Santolaria is the figure of a father that and he is a great observer. “My books
share his passion for writing that keeps Joma is searching for in ‘Morning star’; ‘Friday night’ is about young people who usually treat hard themes because I travel
burning inside of him. He decided to retire in ‘Aydin’ (1994) Godar’s grandfather is go out on weekend as a ritual only because all around the world and I see people on
himself because his ideas of success or fail an example of this wise old man; Hari, they feel lonely. They feel courage only hard conditions so I try to reflect this”.
are not the same as the rest of the world. the old man in ‘Tigers from the valley’ when they are part of a gang. They try to
(1994) is the voice of truth, the justice break all limits with drugs and alcohol only Sometimes he talks about a problem or a
The writer is a key figure because of his and the passion. Only he warns about to keep their rage. It is a kind of escapism, mistake, something that happens so far
capacity to create and motivate feelings. the danger of killing the tigers, an the saddest evasion that drives to the away but it wakes our sleeping conscience
Jordi Sierra i Fabra reflects himself in all opposite opinion against ambition and alienation of the individual. There are up. Sierra i Fabra literature acts against
of these writers with his own force and ignorance; Kaopi’s grandfather knows young people who live between wellness conformism. ‘The last miwok summer’
spirit. “Nobody visited my school when I how to keep hope and what he tells and destruction and they don’t know how approaches Indian persecutions in America
was a child and I thought it is a good idea Kaopi is never to give up. Ammed, the to get out of this. and their extermination. He anticipated in
to show young people that the writer is a old man in ‘Moon night in the narrow’ ‘The music of silence’ the Vicente Ferrer
human being’. This can be the explanation helps Habib to calm his impulse to leave Sierra i Fabra books finish quickly, work in India treating children exploitation
of such as multiples travels he did around the settlement. The old man Tobías precisely and optimistically. After a bad making carpets manufactured. ‘Kaopi’
schools in Spain and Latin America. is a key figure in story development in moment, a turbulent episode comes the focuses on persecuted ethnic groups.
‘Concert in Sol Major’ (1997). Tuí, in calm and the reflexion. The characters ‘Moon night in the narrow’ is about the
Sierra I Fabra often explains in the prologue ‘The wings of the sun’ (1994) is one look for peace and balance. Whatever the illegal Maghreb immigration and the
the reason why he was motivated to write a of the most poetic characters. Óscar situation is, there is always an open door treatment they suffer in their own land,
book. He talks directly to the reader. There grandfather, Valentí, explains to his to hope. It is possible to move on after a with dealers looking for money who don’t
he explains the reasons of ‘Strawberry grandson the meaning of simple things compromise with oneself. Sierra i Fabra care about safety. ‘The wings of the sun’
Fields’ story and in the third book of the about existence in ‘Frost time’. There is works are usually urban novels and there is placed in a refugee camp, Shek Kong
trilogy ‘Cycle of lands’, ‘The testament of a ‘sadhu’, a Hindu saint, in ‘The music is not a rule. The sadness and the lack camp in Hong Kong. Jordi Sierra i Fabra
a place called Earth’ (1987) he talks about of wind’ who cheers the journalist up to of communication, the loneliness, and has been there. It is difficult to survive
his debt with Einstein to create these sci- carry on with his goal. In ‘Asleep over the young people as prisoners of rich, of a between mafias and legal aspects that
fi novels. The same happens in ‘Young mirrors’ (2000) Diego is going to find out powered and glorious world are present avoid the exit. ‘The memory of lost
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