Catalan novelist Emili Teixidor, 78, in June (his novel "Black Bread" was filmed in 2010)

[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, many of them for children. 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)


Lenona.