Juan Marsé

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Juan Marsé
Juan Marsé in 1991
Born	Juan Faneca Roca (1933-01-08)8 January 1933 Barcelona, Spain
Died	18 July 2020(2020-07-18) (aged 87) Barcelona, Spain
Occupation(s)	Novelist, journalist and screenwriter
Movement	Generation of '50
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Juan Marsé Carbó (8 January 1933 – 18 July 2020) was a Spanish

Biography

Marsé was born Juan Faneca Roca in Barcelona. His mother died in childbirth, and he was soon adopted by the Marsé family, taking the name Juan Marsé Carbó.

At age 14, without finishing his studies, Marsé began to work as a jewelry apprentice. He spent some time working in the Barcelonès magazine 'Arcinema' and began his literary career in 1958 with some stories that appeared in 'Insula' and 'El Ciervo' magazines. His story, Nada para morir, won the Sésamo Prize, and in 1958 he published his first novel, Encerrados con un solo juguete (Locked up with a Single Toy), which was a finalist of the Biblioteca Breve Seix Barral Prize.

Afterwards, he spent two years in Paris working as "garçon de laboratoire" at the Pasteur Institute and translating screenplays and teaching Spanish. Back in Spain he wrote Esta cara de la luna (This Side of the Moon), repudiated and never included in his complete works. In 1965 he won the Biblioteca Breve Prize with Últimas tardes con Teresa (Last Evenings with Teresa).

He married Joaquina Hoyas and began working in

and won the Novel International Prize.

In 1974, he started a

Planeta Prize

in 1978, which made him known to the general public.

He wrote two novels about post-war Barcelona, Un día volveré (One Day I'll Come Back) and Ronda del Guinardó, followed by the collection of short stories, Teniente Bravo.

In the 1990s, he received numerous prizes, including Ateneo de Sevilla Prize for El amante bilingüe (The Bilingual Lover)

, the most prestigious award for Spanish-language literature.

MacLehose Press published The Calligraphy of Dreams in 2014.^[4]

Marsé died on 18 July 2020.^[5]

Film adaptations

• The Dark History of Cousin Montse (Jordi Cadena, 1977)
• Girl with the Golden Panties (Vicente Aranda, 1980)
• Last Evenings with Teresa (Gonzalo Herralde, 1984)
• If you say that I fell (Vicente Aranda, 1989)
• The Bilingual Lover (Vicente Aranda, 1993)
• Domenica - adapted from Ronda del Guinardó (Wilma Labate, 2001)
• The Shanghai Spell (Fernando Trueba, 2002)
• Lolita's Club
  (Vicente Aranda, 2007)

External links

• Official Site of Juan Marsé (in Spanish)
• Guided tour of locations featured in Marsé's novels

References