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FCG Internacional Literature Award 2010: JUAN MARSÉ
The Jury met in Valladolid, July 9, 2010 under the Presidency of Mrs. Mercedes Monmany and with Mr. Carlos Aganzo acting as Secretary. It was composed of Mr. Carlos Aganzo, Director of the Newspaper El Norte de Castilla; Mrs. Mercedes Monmany, writer and literary critic; Mrs. Rosa Pereda, journalist and writer; Mr. José Miguel Santiago Castelo, Vicepresident of ABC Newspaper; Mr. Josep-Manuel Silva Alcalde, Administration Adviser of RTVE.
Biography
Juan Marsé Carbó (1933, Barcelona)
1933
Born in Barcelona on January 8, as Juan Faneca Roca, but his mother dies giving birth to him so he is adopted on the spot by the Marse couple.
1934-1946
He spends his early years between Barcelona and two towns in the province of Tarragona where his grandparents lived, Sant Jaume dels Domenys y Arboç del Penedés. Goes to school to colegio del Divino Maestro. Bad student, spends most of his time playing in the street and discovering the stages that later would form his particular literary universe. At the age of 13 he begins to work as a jeweler apprentice. 1947-1959
Through a friend, Paulina Crusat, he publishes his first stories in the magazine "Insula" directed by José Luis Cano. In those years he workes from eight to three in the jewelry store and in the afternoons he earns some money in a movie magazine, short-lived, called "Arcinema." He discovers the bohemian life. At the request of Crusat also, he sends a story to Premio Sesamo and wins. During his military service in Ceuta, at the age of 22, he begins to think about his first novel, "Encerrados con un solo juguete." He finishes this novel a few years later, in 1958, and presents it for Premio Biblioteca Breve Seix Barral, which was a finalist and published "with honors award."
1960-1966
Following the advice of Jaime Gil de Biedma and Carlos Barral he moves to Paris where he was a "garçon de laboratoire" in the Department of Cellular Biochemistry at the Institut Pasteur. He also translates film scripts for Franco-Spanish movies and teaches Spanish to Teresa, the daughter of pianist Robert Casadesus, who would lend the name to the most famous of his novels. On his return from Paris in 1962, he publishes his second novel "Esta cara de la luna", now repudiated by the author and taken down from the catalog of his complete works. He begins his relationship with PCE. Returns to Barcelona. Publishes “Ultimas tardes con Teresa", which leads him to win the award in 1965 Premio Biblioteca Breve.
1987-1997
The decade of the 90’s marked the reputation of the writer in Barcelona with the reception of numerous literary awards. In 1990 he was featured with the Ateneo de Sevilla for "El amante bilingüe." In 1994 "El embrujo de Shanghai" earned him the prestigious Premio de la Critica and the Aristeion, an award granted by the European Union to the two best books of creation and translation among all the published on their respective member countries and languages. In 1997, he was awarded with the Juan Rulfo Prize for Latin American and Caribbean Literature, the most prestigious in Latin America, worth 15 million pesetas.
1998-2000
After seven years of silence, Marse publishes "Colas de Lagartija", a novel that critics have enthusiastically hailed as a return to the narrative world of urban Barcelona and other obsessions of the author.
2001-2004
‘'Rabos de lagartija' received the Premio de la Crítica and Premio Nacional de Narrativa Critics for best novel published last year. In 2002, Espasa published a thorough edition of Cuentos Completos, which collects all the stories written by Juan Marsé since 1957, and that appeared in the pages of various publications such as ‘Destino’, ‘El Urogallo’, ‘Rumbos’ or ‘La Vanguardia’. Seix Barral rescues 'La gran desilusion', "a personal book", originally written in the seventies, which runs through the thirties and forties, a kind of miscellany of images and memories that referred to both news and historical dates as well as experiences, fashions and customs related to daily events, to the popular memory of a period of time. " WORK • Encerrados con un solo juguete (1961) • Esta cara de la luna (1962) • Últimas tardes con Teresa (1966) • La oscura historia de la prima Montse (1970) • Si te dicen que caí (1973) • La muchacha de las bragas de oro (1978) • Un día volveré (1982) • Ronda del Guinardó (1984) • El amante bilingüe (1990) • El embrujo de Shanghai (1993) • Rabos de lagartija (2000) • La gran desilusión (2004) • Canciones de amor en Lolita´s Club (2005)
NOVELS
• Tales and stories colledted in severals volumes:
• La fuga del río Lobo (1985)
• Teniente Bravo (1986)
• El fin del milenio (1990)
• El Cuento de la Isla del Tesoro (1994).
ANTHOLOGIES
• Cuentos completos (2002)
SCREENPLAYS
• Libertad provisional (1975).
1960 Finalist Premio Biblioteca Breve Seix Barral with Encerrados con un solo juguete. 1965 PremioBiblioteca Breve Seix Barral with Últimas tardes con Teresa 1973 Premio Internacional de Novela "México", Si te dicen que caí. 1978 Premio Planeta with La muchacha de las bragas de oro. 1985 Premio Ciudad de Barcelona with Ronda del Guinardó. 1990 Premio Ateneo de Sevilla, El amante bilingüe. 1994 Premio de la Crítica with El embrujo de Shanghai. 1994 Premio Europa de Literatura 1959 Premio Sésamo de cuentos. 1997 Premio Juan Rulfo. 1998 Premio Internacional Unión Latina. 2001 Premio de la Crítica with "Rabos de Lagartija". 2008 Premio Cervantes.
Official Website: http://www.clubcultura.com/clubliteratura/clubescritores/marse/home.htm