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Spanish writer (1942-2003)
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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: [təˈɾɛnsi ˈmoʃ]; real name Ramon Moix i Meseguer; 5 January 1942 – 2 April 2003) was a Spanish writer, who wrote in the Spanish and in Catalan languages. He was the brother of poet/novelist Ana Maria Moix.

Life and work

Moix was born and died in Barcelona. He was self-taught, and his first work, La torre de los vicios capitales (La torre dels vicis capitals in Catalan), was published in 1968. Many of his early works criticised the values of his time, especially the official morality of 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, Destino, Serra d'Or, and El País. He was openly homosexual, and participated in many TV gatherings.

Death

Moix died of emphysema on 2 April 2003 in Barcelona.

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. In 1996, he became the first winner of the Fernando Lara Novel Award for his then-unpublished work El amargo don de la belleza.

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

Novels

Collections of short stories

Essays

References

  1. Moret, Xavier (23 April 1992). "Terenci Moix gana el Premio Ramón Llull con 'El sexe dels àngels'". El País (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  2. Navarro i Ferré, Francesc; Alcaide, Paco (1999). Tod@ la historia homo: Hacia la normalización [1993–1997] (in Spanish). Bauprés Ediciones. p. 24. ISBN 9788434568334. Retrieved 5 September 2018 – via Google Books.

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.
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