Albert Sánchez Piñol
Encyclopedia
Albert Sánchez Piñol (Barcelona
, 1965) is a Catalan
Spanish
author
and anthropologist writing in the Catalan language
. He has been described as a "significant European writer".
Barcelona
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, 1965) is a Catalan
Catalan people
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Spanish
Spanish people
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author
Author
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and anthropologist writing in the Catalan language
Catalan language
Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
. He has been described as a "significant European writer".
Works
- Les edats d´or (2001)
- Pallasos i monstres (2000)
- Compagnie difficili (2000); with Marcelo Fois
- La pell freda (Cold SkinCold SkinCold Skin is the debut novel by Catalan author Albert Sánchez Piñol.-Synopsis:The novel chronicles the stay of an unnamed weather official on a remote island in the south Atlantic close to the Antarctic Circle.-Prizes:...
) (2003) - Pandora al Congo (Pandora in the Congo) (2005)
- Tretze tristos tràngols (Trece tristes trances in Spanish) (2008)