Juan Marsé

Juan Marsé was born in Barcelona in 1933 under the name Juan Faneca Roca; a family took him in and gave him the name Marsé. He left school in adolescence for a jeweller's workshop, published his first stories in magazines in the late fifties, then spent a few years in Paris, where he taught Spanish, translated and worked as a laboratory assistant at the Institut Pasteur. Back in Barcelona, he made his living from advertising and writing for the cinema, contributed to the satirical weekly Por Favor, received the Cervantes Prize in 2008 and died in 2020.

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• NovelThe FallenSi te dicen que caíJuan Marsé · 1973Literature