Juan Marsé

Juan Marsé Carbó (8 January 1933 – 18 July 2020) was a Spanish novelist, journalist and screenwriter. In 2008 he was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, "the Spanish-language equivalent" to the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in Barcelona.

In 1974, he started a column in the magazine Por Favor. He wrote two novels about post-war Barcelona, Un día volveré (One Day I'll Come Back) and Ronda del Guinardó, followed by the collection of short stories, Teniente Bravo.

Marsé died at a hospital in Barcelona on 18 July 2020 from heart failure, aged 87.Muere el escritor Juan Marsé 

Works
The Dark History of Cousin Montse (Jordi Cadena, 1977)
Girl with the Golden Panties (Vicente Aranda, 1980)
Last evening with Teresa (Gonzalo Herralde, 1984)
If you say that I fell (Vicente Aranda, 1989)
The Bilingual Lover (Vicente Aranda, 1993)
Domenica (Wilma Labate, 2001) - adapted by Guinardó Round
The Shanghai Spell (Fernando Trueba, 2002)
Lolita's Club (Vicente Aranda, 2007)

References

Other websites
Official Site of Juan Marsé (in Spanish)
Guided tour of locations featured in Marsé's novels

Category:1933 births
Category:2020 deaths
Category:Deaths from heart failure
Category:Spanish journalists
Category:Spanish novelists
Category:Spanish screenwriters
Category:Writers from Barcelona
Category:Miguel de Cervantes Prize winners