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Juan Goytisolo Gay (6 January 1931 – 4 June 2017) was a Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist. He lived in Marrakesh from 1997 until his death in 2017. He was considered Spain's greatest living writer at the beginning of the 21st century, yet he had lived abroad since the 1950s.
Juan Goytisolo Gay (Barcelona, España, 5 de enero de 1931-Marrakech, Marruecos, 4 de junio de 2017) [1] fue un escritor e intelectual español. Considerado como el narrador más importante de la Generación del medio siglo, [ 2 ] e incluso el mejor novelista español de comienzos del siglo XXI , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] su obra abarca ...
Jun 7, 2017 · Juan Goytisolo, one of Spain’s most celebrated writers, whose experimental, linguistically audacious novels and stories savaged his country’s conservatism, both religious and sexual, and...
May 31, 2024 · Juan Goytisolo (born January 5, 1931, Barcelona, Spain—died June 4, 2017, Marrakech, Morocco) was a Spanish novelist, short-story writer, and essayist whose early Neorealist work evolved into avant-garde fiction using structuralist and formalist techniques.
Juan Goytisolo (goy-tee-SOH-loh) is generally considered the greatest modern Spanish novelist. Unquestionably, he is Spain’s best-known and most acclaimed contemporary writer...
Biography. Juan Goytisolo was born in Barcelona in 1931. His father was on the Republican side during the Civil War, while his mother was killed in an attack by Franco’s forces on Barcelona in 1938. His father’s wealth came from his grandfather’s Cuban sugar plantation.
Juan Goytisolo is one of Spain’s leading writers, but one with a fraught relationship with his home country, to put it mildly. The Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes once likened Goytisolo’s savage indignation and position as the perennial outsider to that of Jonathan Swift.
