by David Castillo · Columna CAT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466412865
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«El llibre dels mals catalans» is the satirical verse novel by David Castillo, published by Columna CAT in paperback (128 pages, in Catalan).
A politician, a poet scraping by as a journalist, and a Russian prostitute form a love triangle in Catalonia under the tripartite government. The poet narrates the story and idealizes the woman, while his former comrade in activism uses her as a sexual refuge. The satire extends to Catalan political life after twenty-three years of Pujolism.
It belongs to the L'arquer collection from Columna CAT and was published on 17 June 2010.
For readers of contemporary fiction and political satire interested in Catalonia under the tripartite government.
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.
