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Miquel de Palol
Biography
Miquel de Palol was born in 1952 in Barcelona but grew up in Valladolid, where his father was a professor of archeology a nd prehistory. He studied architecture in Barcelona. He started writing poetry at the age of nineteen, with his first novel not appearing till 1989. The book – El jardí dels set crepuscles (The Garden of Seven Twilights) – won several awards and has been translated into English. He has gone on to write several well-received novels, which have won awards but which, to date, have not been translated into English though have been translated into French, Spanish and other languages. His five-volume El Troiacord is considered one of the classics of Western literature,
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Bibliography
1972 Lotus (1a part) (poetry)
1973 Lotus (2a part) (poetry)
1973 Delta (poetry)
1974 (poetry)
1975 Arxiu de Poemes independents (poetry)
1977 L’Aneguet lleig (poetry)
1979 Quan? (poetry)
1980 La flor de l’atzavara de Can Coris (poetry)
1981 Encara mor aquella primavera. Barcelona (poetry)
1981 Salamó (poetry)
1982 Rapsòdies
1983 El porxo de les mirades (poetry)
1983 El viatge misteriós El viatge misteriós (poetry)
1986 Indiferència (poetry)
1989 El jardí dels set crepuscles (The Garden of Seven Twilights) (novel)
1991 Sense compromís de perversitat (novel)
1992 Les Tres Ties (children’s)
1992 Quintern (poetry)
1993 Amb l’olor d’Àfrica (novel)
1993 Grafomàquia (novel)
1994 Ígur Neblí (novel)
1995 L’àngel d’hora en hora (novel)
1995 Estudis en menor (poetry)
1996 El sol i la mort (poetry)
1996 Gralles al galliner (poetry)
1997 El legislador (novel)
1997 Consulta a Ripseu (novel)
1997 La fortuna del senyor Filemó (children’s)
1998 Contes per vells adolescents (stories)
1998 Nombra y tendrás (poetry)
1999 Descubrir España (travel)
1999 El Quincorn (novel)
2001 El Troiacord (novel)
2003 Quadern de treball: La fortuna del senyor Filemó (children’s)
2003 La poesia en el boudoir (literature)
2003 Nocturns (poetry)
2004 Les concessions (novel)
2004 Contes en forma de L. (stories)
2006 Gallifa (novel)
2006 Un home vulgar (novel)
2006 Fot-li més que encara som catalans! (politics, humour)
2006 Dos poetes. Barcelona (literature)
2006 El Lleó de Böcklin i sis contes més (stories)
2007 Aire pàl·lid/Palimpsest (novel)
2009 El Testament d’Alcestis (novel)
2011 Meditacions des de Catalunya
2012 Aire amb cel de fons (poetry)
2013 Llac dels Signes (poetry)
2017 Què! Estampes d’un dependent filòsof. (novel)
2018 Alguns Paisatges (poetry)
2019 Angèlica i Rafel (novel)
2020 Mònica Mir (novel)
2021 Copèrnic (novel)
2021 Desdoblament (poetry)
2023 Dies claríssims de Síria (poetry)