Sebastià Alzamora i Martín

Sebastià Alzamora i Martín
Born	(1972-03-06) March 6, 1972 (age 49) Llucmajor, Majorca, Balearic Islands
Language	Catalan
Genre	Literature
Notable works	La pell i la princesa (2005), Nit de l'ànima (2007), Blood Crime (2012)
Notable awards	Premi Sant Jordi de novel·la 2011, 2008, Premi Josep Pla de narrativa 2005

Sebastià Alzamora i Martín (Llucmajor, Majorca, March 6, 1972)^[1] is a writer, literary critic and cultural manager from Majorca. Self-proclaimed member of the poetic group called Imparables ("Unstoppable")

Biography[]

Sebastià has a degree in Catalan philology from Universitat de les Illes Balears, and became known with collection of poems Rafel (1994; Premi Salvador Espriu). He has also published Apoteosi del cercle (1997), Mula morta (2001) and El benestar (2003).

As a writer, 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 is the author of the essay about Gabriel Janer Manila L'escriptura del Foc (1998). He also participated in Imparables, Una antologia (2004) and he has published with and Dogmàtica Imparable (2005). His novel Crim de sang has been published in English "Blood Crime" (SohoPress, 2016)^[2]

As a columnist, he writes in Catalan language newspapers Avui and Ara. Since December 2007, he is the director of the magazine "Cultura".

Awards[]

• 1994: Award Salvador Espriu by Rafel
• 1996: Award Bartomeu Rosselló-Pòrcel of from .
• 1999:
• 2002: by Sara i Jeremies
• 2003: Award Jocs Florals de Barcelona by El Benestar
• 2005: by La pell i la princesa
• 2008: by La part visible
• 2011: , by Crim de sang^[3]

References[]

External links[]

• The author at the web page of the Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana
• Information about the author (in Catalan)