Name Lluis-Anton Baulenas | Role Novelist | |
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Books Happiness, For a sack of bones Movies Anita Takes a Chance, Idiot Love, Drifting Awards Girona Literary Award: Prudenci Bertrana Prize Nominations Goya Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Similar People Ventura Pons, Carles Cases, Ausias March, Ramon Llull, James I of Aragon | ||
L'experiència cinematogràfica de Lluís Anton Baulenas
Lluís-Anton Baulenas ([ʎuˈiz ənˈtɔm bəwˈɫɛnəs]) (born in Barcelona in 1958) is a Catalan novelist, translator and playwright.
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Career
Among his works are the novels Rampoines 451 (Good-for-Nothing 451, 1990), Noms à la sorra (Names in the Sand, 1995), which was a finalist for the Sant Jordi Prize, Alfons XIV (1997), also a finalist for the Sant Jordi Prize, El fil de plata (The Silver Thread, 1998), which was awarded the Serra d'Or Critics’ Prize, and La felicitat (Happiness, 2001), which received the Prudenci Bertrana Prize.
Awards
In 2005 Baulenas won the most prestigious award in Catalan letters, the Ramon Llull prize, for his novel Per un sac d’ossos (For a Sack of Bones), dealing with the Spanish civil war. The Toronto Star, reviewing the English translation (July 13, 2008), commented that "Baulenas is an accomplished storyteller whose narrative never falters, never veers off-course, never relinquishes its hold on the reader."