Lluís-Anton Baulenas
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Lluís-Anton Baulenas (Catalan pronunciation: [ʎuˈiz ənˈtɔm bəwˈlɛnəs]; born in Barcelona in 1958) is a Catalan novelist, translator and playwright.
Career[]
Among his works are the novels Rampoines 451 (1990, English: Good-for-Nothing 451), Noms à la sorra (1995, English: Names in the Sand), which was a finalist for the Sant Jordi Prize, Alfons XIV (1997), also a finalist for the Sant Jordi Prize, El fil de plata (1998, English: The Silver Thread), which was awarded the Serra d'Or Critics' Prize, and La felicitat (2001, English: Happiness), which received the Prudenci Bertrana Prize.
Awards[]
In 2005 Baulenas won the most prestigious award in Catalan letters, the Ramon Llull Novel Award, for his book Per un sac d'ossos (English: For a Sack of Bones), about the Spanish Civil War.[1] The Toronto Star, reviewing the English translation on 13 July 2008, commented that "Baulenas is an accomplished storyteller whose narrative never falters, never veers off-course, never relinquishes its hold on the reader".[2]
References[]
- ^ Bennàssar, Sebastià (4 February 2005). "L'escriptor Lluís Anton Baulenas guanya el XXV premi Ramon LLull". Diari de Balears (in Catalan). Retrieved 21 May 2019.
- ^ https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/Books/article/458873
External links[]
- European translator stubs
- Catalan writer stubs
- Writers from Catalonia
- Living people
- Translators from Catalonia
- English–Catalan translators
- 1958 births
- Catalan-language writers