Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel

Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel was born on 6 November 1966 in Santa Isabel, today Malabo, to parents from Annobón, an island where he spent part of his childhood. A nurse trained at the national school of health in Bata, he writes novels, poems, plays and essays, and edited the review El Patio of the Hispano-Guinean Cultural Centre. He left his country in 2011 and lives in Barcelona. Several of his books have appeared in French and in English.

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• NovelLa cargaJuan Tomás Ávila Laurel · 1999not translated into EnglishLiterature