Ramon Solsona i Sancho

Ramon Solsona i Sancho
Ramon Solsona in 2015
Born	February 7, 1950
Occupation	Writer
Language	Catalan
Nationality	Catalonia

Ramon Solsona i Sancho (Barcelona, February 7, 1950)^[1] is a Catalan writer and publicist. He has a degree in Romance Philology and he is also a high school teacher^[2] on leave. Notable for his ironic style and numerous collaborations with print media (Avui, Diari de Barcelona, La Vanguardia) and radio (Catalunya Ràdio, RAC 1), he is a currently collaborator of a radio program (El Matí de Catalunya Ràdio with Mònica Terribas, section "Entre paraules").

Career

He has also been a poet (satirist) under the pseudonym Lo Gaiter del Besòs. His novel Les hores detingudes won three literary prizes in the same year and was translated into Spanish and French. For television, he has worked as a writer for the series Agència de viatges, Estació d'enllaç and El cor de la ciutat, which were broadcast by TV3. He was author of the lyrics of the hymn for the centenary of FC Barcelona (1998), set to music by Antoni Ros-Marbà. In 2010 he received the premi Sant Jordi de novel·la for his book L'home de la maleta.

Works

Ramon Solsona talking about Tísner

Solsona at St George's Day, 2013

Short stories

• 1991: Llibreta de vacances
• 2006: Cementiri de butxaca

Novels

• 1989: Figures de calidoscopi
• 1993: Les hores detingudes
• 1998: DG
• 1999: No tornarem mai més
• 2001: El cor de la ciutat
• 2004: Línia blava
• 2011: L'home de la maleta

Poetry

• 1989: Sac de gemecs

Nonfiction

• 1995: Ull de bou
• 1995 Ull de vaca
• 2005: A paraules em convides

Notes

1. "Ramon Solsona i Sancho". www.enciclopedia.cat. Enciclopèdia Catalana. April 10, 2015. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
2. Casas, Sònia (June 2008). "El meu heroi: Ramon Solsona". Sàpiens (68).

External links

• Ramon Solsona at the website of Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (AELC).