R.I.P. Emili Teixidor, 78, in June (Catalan novelist: "Black Bread," 2003)

[leno...@yahoo.com]

Aka Emili Teixidor Viladecàs, he was born in Roda de Ter, Catalonia,
Spain. He lived in Barcelona.

He wrote more than 30 books, including some for adults. He was nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1996.

https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww#hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=emili+teixidor+78&oq=emili+teixidor+78&gs_l=hp.3...1110.1110.0.1433.1.1.0.0.0.0.66.66.1.1.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.Mls15_36gnM&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=c357eac1143feb6a&bpcl=37189454&biw=1151&bih=723
(multiple obits in Catalan and Spanish - they can be translated with a click)

From Wikipedia:

"Black Bread (Catalan: Pa negre) is a 2010 Catalan-language Spanish drama film written and directed by Agustí Villaronga. The screenplay is based on the homonymous novel by Emili Teixidor, with elements of two other works by him, Retrat d'un assassí d'ocells and Sic transit Gloria Swanson.

"The film won thirteen Gaudí Awards, nine Goya Awards, including best film, best director and best adapted screenplay. It was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards being the first Catalan-language film to do it....."


http://www.lletra.net/obres/panegreteixidor/index.html
(review of novel "Black Bread")
"Pa negre is set in the harsh times that followed the Spanish Civil War, in an atmosphere of mists and rural and industrial drama, a drama in which personal memories, stories and sometimes legends taken from here and there are all intermingled. He constructs a mythical territory set in the region of Osona, which is not just a physical space. It is the moral space of the child who glimpses the adult world, and the moral space of the adolescent, the space of his initiation into life, its secrets, its mysteries, its gift and its pain."

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:1HLfKfoZm_YJ:fil04.llull.cat/eng/02protagonistes/docs/teixidor_emili.doc+emili+teixidor+swanson&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=9&gl=us
(short bio and bibliography)

http://www.escriptors.cat/autors/teixidore/pagina.php?id_sec=3020
Excerpt:
"Some of his earlier works are now considered children’s and young adult classics, these include Les rates malaltes (1967), awarded with the Joaquim Ruyra, Dídac, Berta i la màquina de lligar boira (1969) and L'ocell de foc (1969). As an adult's novelist, he wrote Sic trànsit Gloria Swanson (1979), awarded with the Crítica Serra d'Or, Retrat d'un assassí d'ocells (1988), El llibre de les mosques (2000), awarded the Sant Jordi de novela, and his most acclaimed novel, Pa negre (2003), which obtained the awards Joan Crexells, Lletra d'Or, Premi Nacional de Cultura de Literatura and Maria Àngels Anglada. He also published the novels Laura Sants (2006) and Els convidats (2010)."


http://www.lletra.net/noms/eteixidor/index.html
(interview - "Who I Am and Why do I Write, I'm being asked" - the interview is in English, but the links within are mostly in Spanish and Catalan)

Excerpt: "Whoever said that literature preserves, deep down, at its root, the preverbal custom of helping out to build worlds, a habit that is largely visceral, emotional, so personal and non-transferable that it is often far removed from merely linguistic interpretations?"

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZDpy45ciwCQC&pg=PA127&dq=Emili+Teixidor#PPA127,M1
(interesting comment on which languages are "useful")

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=emili%20teixidor&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
(photos, covers)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1191258/
(filmography)

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=Emili%20Teixidor%20&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#
(videos in Catalan and Spanish)

Some juvenile titles:

El soldat plantat (The Jilted Soldier) (1967),
Les rates malaltes (The Sick Little Rats) (1968),
Dídac, Berta i la màquina de lligar boira (Dedrick, Bertha and the Fog-
Tying Machine) (1969),

L'ocell de foc (The Firebird) (1972),

Sempre em dic Pere (My Name is Always Pere) (1980),
El príncep Alí (Prince Ali) (1982),
En Ranquet i el tresor (Ranquet and the Treasure) (1986),
El crim de la hipotenusa (The Hypothenuse Crime) (1988),
Les ales de la nit (The Wings of Night) (1990),
the adaptation of Els Lusíades (The Lussiades) (1989).

L'amiga més amiga de la formiga Piga (Little Ant Piga's Best Friend),
1997.

Also, El nom de cada cosa (The Name of Each Thing) (1968), cowritten
with Jacint Matas and Maria Dolors Bordas.

Stories for adults include Sic transit Gloria Swanson (1979).


Lenona.