Jorge Carrión
Jorge Carrión (Tarragona, Spain – 1976) is a Spanish writer, cultural critic, and director of the Master in Literary Creation at the Pompeu Fabra University. His published books include the non-fiction works Bookshops (2013) and Barcelona: Book of Passageways (2017), and the novels The Dead (2010), The Orphans (2014), and The Tourists (2015). He writes in the Spanish edition of The New York Times, and he's also a collaborator in international media as the National Geographic magazine, El País, and La Vanguardia.
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- Birth Name
- Jorge Carrión Gálvez
- Born
- 1976
- Birthplace
- Tarragona, Spain
- Education
- Pompeu Fabra University
- Nationality
- Spain
- Occupation
- writer · literary critic · art critic · academic staff · hispanist · journalist · lecturer
- Fields
- hispanism · creative and professional writing · literary criticism · journalism
- Languages
- Spanish · Catalan
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• Birth Name — Jorge Carrión Gálvez • Born — 1976 • Birthplace — Tarragona, Spain • Language — es • Education — Pompeu Fabra University • Genre — non-fiction, Novel
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Jorge Carrión (born 1976) is recorded as a writer, literary critic and art critic. The birth of Jorge Carrión is recorded in 1976 in Tarragona.
Early life
Early life
Carrión comes from a family of Andalusian immigrants in Catalonia. His father was a worker at a telephone company, and they didn't own books.
Career
Career
From 2000 to 2005, Jorge Carrion was a member of the editorial board of the defunct magazine Lateral. He co-directed the literary journal Quimera, and he's been a contributor to the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia for fifteen years. His works have been translated into several languages, included Chinese, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, Polish and English. For writing Bookshops: A Reader's History, Carrión visited over 1,000 bookstores and libraries around the world. He uses to remark the importance of bookshops in a post-digital era. He points out that people are reconnecting to the material. However, humanity is transitioning from anthropocentrism to codigocentrism.
Books Translated into English
• Against Amazon: and Other Essays • Bookshops: A Reader's History
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Spanish writer and literary critic Jorge Carrión at the 20 Moscow International Fair Non/fiction 2018
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- 1.Jorge Carrión. mertin-litag.de.
- 2.On being comfortable in a creative no man's land. thecreativeindependent.com.
- 3.Jorge Carrión Autores. CCCB LAB.
- 4.CCEMiami. Conversation with Spanish writer Jordi/Jorge Carrión.
- 5.Event – In Other Words: Jorge Carrión on Translation. The Wheeler Centre.
- 6.顾馨. Spanish writer reveals the magic of bookshops. global.chinadaily.com.cn.
- 7.Jorge Carrión: "A horizon of Bookshops that will keep changing over the years": A Conversation with Claudia Cavallín. Latin American Literature Today. 25 July 2018.
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