by David Castillo · Proa · tapa dura · ISBN 9788482566924
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«El cel de l'infern» is the novel by David Castillo, published by Proa in hardback (208 pages, in Catalan).
In December 1980, Dani Cajal leaves Barcelona's Modelo prison and tries to rebuild his life with Maite, who is sinking into disillusionment. Sick of defeatism and heroin, he sets out on a journey to Nicaragua during the Sandinista revolution. It is the epic of an idealistic dream, that of the last utopians of the millennium.
Originally published in 1999, it belongs to the A tot vent-tela collection (number 366) and won the Joan Crexells Prize for narrative in 1999.
For readers of Catalan fiction interested in the transition between 1980s Barcelona and Sandinista Nicaragua.
David Castillo i Buïls is a Spanish poet, writer, and literary critic. He started out as a poet with counterculture and underground publications in the 1970s, although his first published work, a declaration of principles, was the biography of Bob Dylan in 1992. Three years earlier, he had been the anthologist of Ser del segle, which brought together leading voices of the generation of the 1980s. They were followed by a series of poems among them "Game over", which won the Carles Riba Poetry Prize. Then he began a career as a writer with novels like El cel de l'infern and No miris enrere, that were well accepted both by critics and the general public. El cel de l'infern was awarded the Crexells Prize for the best Catalan novel of the year in 1999. No miris enrere won the Premi Sant Jordi de novel·la of 2001. Castillo has received Atlàntida awards for journalism three times, and he has also been awarded the Italian "Tratti Poetry Prize for the best foreign poet" for his anthology of poetry translated into Italian. He has been organizing various poetic cycles. He is a founder of Poetry Week in Barcelona, and has been a director of it since 1997.
