:Borja Bagunyà
{{Short description|Catalan writer and university professor}}
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Borja Bagunyà Costes (born 1982, Barcelona) is a Catalan writer and university professor.{{Cite web |title=Borja Bagunyà |url=https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/borja-bagunya |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Words Without Borders}}
Biography
He has a degree in literary theory and comparative literature from the University of Barcelona, where he is an associate professor.{{Cite web |title=Borja Bagunyà – Comma Press |url=https://commapress.co.uk/authors/borja-bagunya/ |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=commapress.co.uk}} He is also co-founder of the Escola Bloom (Bloom literature School) with Lana Bastasic and editor of the literary magazine Carn de cap.{{Cite web |title=Borja Bagunyà |url=https://www.agenciabalcells.com/en/authors/author/borja-bagunya/ |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells |language=en}}
He wrote his first book of short stories at the age of 19 – published in 2004, Apunts per al retrat d'una ciutat — 2 and in 2007 won the Mercè Rodoreda Award for short stories for Defensa pròpia. In 2011 he published Plantes d'Interior (Empúries){{Cite web |title=Borja Bagunyà, 2011 FPdGi Arts and Literature Award |url=https://en.fpdgi.org/projects/fpdgi-awards/awards/2011/borja-bagunya-2011-fpdgi-arts-and-literature-award/ |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=en.fpdgi.org}} and in 2021 Els angles morts (Periscopi).{{Cite web |title=Borja Bagunyà {{!}} Participants |url=https://kosmopolis.cccb.org/en/participants/bagunya-borja/ |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=Kosmopolis |language=en-US}} Winner of the Critics' Award 2022 in the category of Catalan narrative, it has been translated into Spanish by Rubén Martín Giráldez with the title Los Puntos Ciegos.
Works
- Apunts per al retrat d'una ciutat (Tarragona: Arola Editors, 2004).
- Defensa pròpia (Barcelona: Edicions Proa, 2007 – Premi Mercè Rodoreda 2007)
- Plantes d'interior (Barcelona: Editorial Empúries, 2011).
- Trapologia, with Max Besora (Ara llibres, 2018)
- Els angles morts (Edicions del Periscopi, 2021)
- Sessió de control / Una casa i un flagell (Comanegra, 2023)
- Breu història del mandat (Fragmenta, 2023)