Terenci Moix

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Terenci Moix
BornRamon Moix i Meseguer
(1942-01-05)5 January 1942
Barcelona Spain
Died2 April 2003(2003-04-02) (aged 61)
Barcelona Spain
Occupationwriter, novelist
LanguageSpanish, Catalan
NationalitySpanish
Notable awards

Terenci Moix (Catalan pronunciation:

Ana Maria Moix
.

Life and work

Moix was born and died in

Francoism. In 1990, he wrote and published a children's book called, Los Grandes Mitos del Cine (English version as "The Greatest Stories of Hollywood Cinema"), which is illustrated by Willi Glasauer, and published by Círculo de Lectores. This children's book includes fun facts, trivia, and information accompanied by photos and Willi Glasauer's illustrations of the classic Hollywood films and stars such as Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Cleopatra, and Tarzan the Ape Man
.

He wrote in several newspapers: Tele-Exprés, Tele-Estel, El Correo Catalán,

homosexual, and participated in many TV gatherings.[citation needed
]

Death

Moix died of emphysema on 2 April 2003 in Barcelona.[citation needed]

Awards

In 1967 he won the Mercè Rodoreda Award for La torre dels vicis capitals. In 1992, he won the Ramon Llull Novel Award for El sexe dels àngels.[1] In 1996, he became the first winner of the Fernando Lara Novel Award for his then-unpublished work El amargo don de la belleza.[2]

An annual

literature prize, bearing his name, the Terenci Moix Fundación Arena de Narrativa Gay y Lésbica, has been instituted.[citation needed] It was won most recently by Spanish novelist Rafael Peñas Cruz for his coming-of-age work, Charlie.[citation needed
]

Novels

  • La torre de los vicios capitales
  • El dia que murio Marilyn
  • Olas sobre una roca desierta
  • Món mascle
  • La caiguda de L'imperi sodomita
  • La increada conciencia de la raza o melodrama
  • Sadistic, esperpentic i adhuc metafisic
  • Nuestro Virgen de los mártires
  • Amami, Alfredo! o polvo de estrellas
  • No digas que fue un sueño
  • Garras de astracan
  • Mujercisimas
  • La herida de la esfinge
  • El arpista ciego
  • El amargo don de la belleza (2011),

Collections of short stories

Essays

References

https://www.tablondeanuncios.com/colecciones/terence_moix_la_noche_no_es_hermosa-3299412.htm

External links

  • Terenci Moix at the Association of Catalan Language Writers, AELC. In Catalan, English and Spanish.