'Joan Pou', Joan Castelló wins 2016
Joan Cardona Torres, known as 'Joan Pou’, was the winner of the Joan Castelló short stories organized by the Consell Insular d'Eivissa. Six steps is the name of the winning you submitted on the. The prize is worth 2.500 euros and the publication of the book in the collection of the same name.
The minutes of the meeting members of the jury wanted to highlight this collection of stories "lexical richness, Text is very solid and well-managed balance between content and style; stories are rooted in Ibiza a well known and experienced by the author, with characters who all still know and interact with people passing, a wise and ironic vision of society that reflects ".
The jury met last day 30 September and consisted of the following writers: president Carles Torres, and members were Joan Prats and Albert Manuel Matoses (the three winners of this award in previous years) and Bartomeu Ribes.
Degree in psychology and Hispanic Philology from the University of Barcelona, Joan Cardona Torres was director of the School Wheat. Professor of Spanish language and literature, He served as a professor at the Institute Isidor Macabich and Severo Ochoa (Esplugues de Llobregat). published:Butcher ties, Institut d’Estudis Eivissencs, 2015, winner of Oleander. He also won, El 1997 Ibiza Town Prize for Fiction Youth. He is also author The carpeta Infante Reynard (1995); The bloc of Bogamarí (1997); The logbook of Sigurd II as well as several short stories.
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