Borja Bagunyà

Borja Bagunyà Costes (born 1982, Barcelona) is a Catalan writer and university professor.[1]

Borja Bagunyà
Born1982 (age 40–41)
Barcelona
OccupationWriter & university professor

Biography

He has a degree in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from the University of Barcelona, where he is an associate professor.[2] He is also co-founder of the Escola Bloom (Bloom literature School) with Lana Bastasic[1] and editor of the literary magazine Carn de cap.[3]

He wrote his first book of short stories at the age of nineteen — published in 2004, Apunts per al retrat d'una ciutat — 2 and in 2007 won the Mercè Rodoreda Award for short stories for Defensa pròpia. In 2011 he published Plantes d'Interior (Empúries)[4] and in 2021 Els angles morts (Periscopi).[5] Winner of the Critics' Award 2022 in the category of Catalan narrative, it has been translated into Spanish by Rubén Martín Giráldez with the title Los Puntos Ciegos.

Works
  • Apunts per al retrat d'una ciutat (Tarragona: Arola Editors, 2004).
  • Defensa pròpia (Barcelona: Edicions Proa, 2007 - Premi Mercè Rodoreda 2007)
  • Plantes d'interior (Barcelona: Editorial Empúries, 2011).
  • Trapologia, with Max Besora (Ara llibres, 2018)
  • Els angles morts (Edicions del Periscopi, 2021)

References
  1. "Borja Bagunyà". Words Without Borders. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  2. "Borja Bagunyà - Comma Press". commapress.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  3. "Borja Bagunyà". Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  4. "Borja Bagunyà, 2011 FPdGi Arts and Literature Award". en.fpdgi.org. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  5. "Borja Bagunyà | Participants". Kosmopolis. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
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