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Quim Monzó was born in Barcelona in 1952.
He has been awarded the National Award for fiction;
the Catalan Literary Lifetime Achievement Award; the City of Barcelona Award for fiction; the Prudenci Bertrana Award for
fiction; the El Temps Award for best novel; the Lletra d'Or Prize; the Catalan Writers' Award;
the Maria Àngels Anglada; the Trajectòria; he has also been
awarded Serra d'Or magazine's prestigious Critics' Award, four
times.
In 2007 he wrote and read the opening
speech at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Monzó designed a lecture written as if it was a short story. It differed
completely from traditional speeches.
(Congress
Center Messe Frankfurt, October 9 2007:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT-HTkUwO-M
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www.vilaweb.cat/media/attach/vwedts/docs/discursinaugural.pdf ).
Together with Cuca Canals, he wrote the dialogues
for Bigas Luna's movie Jamón, jamón. He has also written the
musical satire El tango de Don Joan, with Jérôme Savary.
He is a regular contributor to the
La
Vanguardia newspaper.
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