Quim Monzó

Spanish writer

Quim Monzó

Born	(1952-03-15) 15 March 1952 (age 72) Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Occupation	Journalist, Novelist
Nationality	Spanish
Website
www.monzo.info/inde.htm

Joaquim Monzó i Gómez (born 15 March 1952), also known as Quim Monzó (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkim munˈso]),^[1] is a contemporary Spanish writer of novels, short stories and discursive prose, mostly in Catalan. In the early 1970s, Monzó reported from Vietnam, Cambodia, Northern Ireland and East Africa for the Barcelona newspaper Tele/eXpres. He was one of the members of the Catalan literary collective, Ofèlia Dracs.^[2] He lives in Barcelona and publishes regularly in La Vanguardia.

His fiction is characterized by an awareness of pop culture and irony. His other prose maintains this humor. One collection of his essays, Catorze ciutats comptant-hi Brooklyn, is notable for its account of New York City in the days immediately following September 11. In collaboration with Cuca Canals, he wrote the dialogue for Bigas Luna's Jamón, jamón. He has also written El tango de Don Joan, with Jérôme Savary.

In 2007 he wrote and read the opening speech at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the year in which Catalan culture was the guest. Monzó designed an acclaimed lecture written as if it were a short story, thus differing completely from a traditional speech. From December 2009 to April 2010 there took place in the Arts Santa Mònica Gallery in Barcelona a great retrospective exhibition on his life and his work, called Monzó.

Bibliography

Books in English

O'Clock, 1986. New York: Ballantine Books. Translated by Mary Ann Newman. ISBN 978-0-345-31668-4 ISBN 0345316681
The enormity of the tragedy, 2007. London: Peter Owen Publishers. Translated by Peter Bush. ISBN 978-0-7206-1299-8 ISBN 0720612993
Gasoline, 2010. Rochester, NY: Open Letter. Translated by Mary Ann Newman. ISBN 978-1-934824-18-4; ISBN 1-934824-18-6
Guadalajara, 2011, Rochester, NY: Open Letter. Translated by Peter Bush. ISBN 978-1-934824-19-1; ISBN 1-934824-19-4
A thousand morons, 2013, Rochester, NY: Open Letter. Translated by Peter Bush. ISBN 978-1-934824-41-2; ISBN 1-934824-41-0
Why, Why, Why?, 2019, Rochester, NY: Open Letter. Translated by Peter Bush. ISBN 978-1948830041; ISBN 1948830043

Books in Catalan

Fiction

L'udol del griso al caire de les clavegueres, 1976. Winner of the Premi Prudenci Bertrana (1976).
Self Service, 1977. In collaboration with Biel Mesquida.
Uf, va dir ell, 1978.
Olivetti, Moulinex, Chaffoteaux et Maury, 1980. Winner of the Premi de la Crítica Serra d'Or in 1981.
Benzina, 1983.
L'illa de Maians, 1985. Awarded the Premi de la Crítica Serra d'Or, 1986.
La magnitud de la tragèdia, 1989. Winner of the Premi de Novel·la El Temps, 1989.

El perquè de tot plegat, 1993. Awarded the Premi Ciutat de Barcelona in 1993, and the Premi de la Crítica Serra d'Or in 1994.
Guadalajara, 1996. Awarded the Premi de la Crítica Serra d'Or, 1997.
Vuitanta-sis contes (comprising Uf, va dir ell, Olivetti, Moulinex, Chaffoteaux et Maury, L'illa de Maians, El perquè de tot plegat and Guadalajara), 1999. Awarded the Premi Nacional de Literatura and Premi Lletra d'Or, both in 2000.
El millor dels mons, 2001.
Mil cretins, 2007. Awarded the Maria Àngels Anglada Prize, 2008.

Collected articles and essays

El dia del senyor, 1984.
Zzzzzzzz, 1987.
La maleta turca, 1990.
Hotel Intercontinental, 1991.
No plantaré cap arbre, 1994.
Del tot indefens davant dels hostils imperis alienígenes, 1998.
Tot és mentida, 2000.
El tema del tema, 2003.
Catorze ciutats comptant-hi Brooklyn, 2004.
Esplendor i glòria de la Internacional Papanates, 2010.
Taula i barra. Diccionari de menjar i beure, 2017.

Miscellany

He has also translated a large number of authors, including Truman Capote, J.D. Salinger, Ray Bradbury, Thomas Hardy, Harvey Fierstein, Ernest Hemingway, John Barth, Roald Dahl, Mary Shelley, Javier Tomeo, Arthur Miller, and Eric Bogosian.

Monzó has been diagnosed^[when?] with Tourette syndrome.^[3]^[4]

Books about Monzó

Margarida Casacuberta and Marina Gustà (ed.): De Rusiñol a Monzó: humor i literatura. Barcelona: Publicacions de l'Abadia de Montserrat, 1996, ISBN 84-7826-695-X
Christian Camps and Jordi Gàlvez (ed.): Quim Monzó. Montpellier: Université Paul Valéry, 1998. ISBN 978-2-84269-186-8 LO
Antoni Mestres: Humor i persuasió: l’obra periodística de Quim Monzó. Alicante: Universitat d'Alacant, 2006. ISBN 84-611-1107-9
Julià Guillamon (ed.): Monzó. Com triomfar a la vida. Barcelona: Galàxia Gutenberg / Cercle de Lectors, 2009, ISBN 978-84-8109-847-1. This is a book catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition devoted to the life and work of author (Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, between December 2009 and April 2010).

References

^ Monzó, Quim (2010-12-14). "Entre la ese y la zeta". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 April 2020. que Monzó suena con ese sorda
^ Aramburu, Diana (2019). Resisting Invisibility: Detecting the Female Body in Spanish Crime Fiction. University of Toronto Press. p. 238. ISBN 978-1-4875-0459-5.
^ "Archived copy" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on July 7, 2011. Retrieved January 17, 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) APTT web page. Retrieved on 2009-01-03.
^ (in Spanish) Puyod, Carmina. Síndrome de Tourette: el capricho del cerebro. Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine El Periódico de Aragón (May 23, 2003). Retrieved on 2009-01-03.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Quim Monzó.

Website dedicated to Monzó (in English, Catalan, and Spanish)
Quim Monzó al the Association of Catalan Language Writers. In (in English, Catalan, and Spanish)
Short stories by Monzó in Words without Borders
Open Letter Publishing House
Peter Owen Publishers on The enormity of the tragedy
More than twenty-five years of essays by Monzó in the Barcelonian newspaper La Vanguardia (in Catalan and Spanish)
"Quim Monzó". lletrA-UOC – Open University of Catalonia.
Opening speech at the 2007 Frankfurt Book Fair (in English, German, Catalan, and Spanish)
Why Quim Monzó does not go to the theatre? on YouTube (in Catalan)
Profile in Culturcat
Web dedicated to the book Monzó. Com triomfar a la vida (in Catalan)
Editorial Anagrama (in Spanish)
Editorial Acantilado (in Spanish)
Quaderns Crema (in Catalan)

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