© EdebéJordi Sierra i Fabra
Invitado de Honor
Born in Barcelona in 1947. His connection with rock music (he directed and in many cases founded some of the leading Spanish magazines in the genre in the 70s: Disco Expres, Popular 1, Super Pop, etc.) established his reputation. He published his first book in 1972. Since then, he has written 600 works in all genres, many of them best sellers; he has won 60 literary awards, received hundreds of honorable mentions and appeared on multiple honor lists, and his works have been translated into more than 40 languages.
In 2006, 2010, 2020 and 2022, he was nominated by Spain for the Youth Nobel, the Hans Christian Andersen Award. In 2007, he received the Spanish Ministry of Culture's National Literature Award, the Cervantes Joven in 2012, and in 2013 the Iberoamerican Prize for all his work and the social work of his foundations. He also received the Gold Medal of Merit in Fine Arts in 2017 and the Creu de Sant Jordi in 2018.
His works have sold over 15 million copies. Tireless, romantic, sentimental and passionate traveler, he considers himself a utopian possibilist and a lover of the written word and the freedom that entails.
In 2004, he created the Jordi Sierra i Fabra Foundation in Barcelona, and the Jordi Sierra i Fabra Writing Workshop Foundation in Medellin, Colombia, as the culmination of a career and his ethical and social commitment. Ever since, every year a prize is given to a young writer under 18. In 2010, his Foundations received the IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award, the most important in the world, and in 2015, the Barcelona Medal of Honor.
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