Jordi Sierra i Fabra

Jordi Sierra i Fabra (born 26 July 1947 in Barcelona) is a Spanish author. His works for children's literature have been published in Spain and Latin America. He has also studied pop music since the late 1960s. He has founded and/or managed several journals, includingEl Gran Musical, Disco Expres, Popular 1 Top Magazine.
His writing has won many awards.
Jordi Sierra i Fabra
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Jordi Sierra i Fabra
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Personal information
Birth July 26, 1947 View and modify the data in Wikidata (74 years)
Barcelona (Spain) View and modify the data on Wikidata
Spanish nationality
Professional information
Occupation Writer, journalist, science fiction writer and children's literature writer View and edit data on Wikidata
Years active 20th century, 21st century
Spanish and Catalan literary language
Genres Novel, short story, poetry, essay
Notable works Strawberry fields
Honors
Nestor Lujan Prize for Historical Novels (2004)
National Prize for Children's and Young People's Literature (2007)
Cervantes Chico Award (2011) View and modify the data in Wikidata
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Jordi Sierra i Fabra (Barcelona, July 26, 1947) is a Spanish writer. His works of children's and youth literature have been published in Spain and Latin America. He has also been a student of pop music since the late 1960s. He was one of the founders of Cadena Ser's program "El Gran Musical".
Index
1 Biography
2 Jordi Sierra i Fabra Foundation
3 Works
3.1 Narrative and essay
3.1.1 Inspector Mascarell Series
3.2 History
3.3 Biographies
3.4 Poetry
3.5 Youth narrative
3.6 Others
4 Awards and distinctions (selection)
5 References
6 External links
Biography
With communication problems due to being a stutterer, he is a compulsive reader. At the age of eight he had a serious accident, and from the age of ten to twelve he wrote several hundred-page novels; At 15 he already had one of five hundred written. He finished school at sixteen and passed the high school bar in the summer of 1964. He suffered violent bullying from schoolyard bullies. He commented on his childhood and youth that "I was repressed three times: by my father, by the regime and by the Francoist school." 1 The Public Order Court booked him at age 21 for writing in a clandestine magazine and they took away his passport. He bribed a military man not to do military service. In October 1964 he went to work in construction by day and to study to be a rigger by night, in a night school, forced by his father. In the next six years he began to listen to the radio and save to buy rock records and learned English by ear.
Thanks to the insistent twenty-page letters that he sent per week to the Radio Madrid program (Cadena SER) El Gran Musical, he managed to get him to commission him to make a magazine in 1968. He also published articles and collaborations in La Prensa de Barcelona and Nuevo Diario de Madrid . He then went on to direct the weekly Disco Expres (1970-1978) and published his first book in 2345: 1962-72 Historia de la Musica Pop, the first of its kind in Spain and widely sold. He collaborates in a large number of music magazines: Top Magazine, Extra etc. He had two sons. He was a founding member, editor and finally director of Popular 1 (1973-1976), a monthly rock magazine, and of Super Pop. In 1978 he was a finalist for the Planeta award, and in 1979 he received the Ateneo de Sevilla award. In 1981 he received his first Grand Angle Prize for youth literature, which he received again in 1983 and 1991; he has great success with Young Lennon, a youth bestseller. It is translated into Italian, German, French, Greek, Bulgarian, Portuguese, Slovak, Dutch, English, Japanese, etc. Some of his titles are adapted to film, television or theater. In 2002 a survey declared that he is the most widely read living author in schools in Spain. He is also in libraries. In 2012 he published My (first) 400 books. Literary memoirs of Jordi Sierra i Fabra. 2
An expert in children's literature, he has published a total of 527 books up to the current year 2021. His last novel, Like Tears in the Rain, won the Lazarillo Prize.3
Jordi Sierra i Fabra Foundation
The Jordi Sierra i Fabra Foundation of Barcelona, inaugurated in 2004, is a private, non-profit entity financed by its promoter, with the primary objective of helping young writers at the beginning of their literary career, in addition to promoting the pleasure of writing. reading as an essential vehicle for training. This foundation annually awards the Jordi Sierra i Fabra Literary Prize for young people.