Joan Carreras i Goicoechea
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Joan Carreras i Goicoechea (born 1962) is a Spanish journalist, screenwriter and writer in the Catalan language.{{cite web |url= http://www.enciclopedia.cat/EC-GEC-0516594.xml |title= Joan Carreras i Goicoechea |date=9 April 2015 |website= enciclopedia.cat |publisher= Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana |access-date=9 April 2015}}{{cite journal |last= Nopca |first= Jordi |date= 21 March 2012 |title= Joan Carreras, 'm'agraden les històries a dins de les històries' |trans-title= Joan Carreras, 'I like the stories within stories' |language= ca |journal= Ara |location= Barcelona }}{{cite journal |last= Serra |first= Montserrat|date= 12 March 2012 |title= Joan Carreras, @janquim, publica 'Carretera secundària' |trans-title= Joan Carreras, @janquim has published 'Secondary Road' |url= http://www.vilaweb.cat/noticia/3993786/20120312/joan-carreras-janquim-publica-carretera-secundaria.html |language= ca |journal=Vilaweb |location= Barcelona|access-date= 9 April 2015 }}
Biography
Son of Joan Carreras i Martí, he is associated lecturer in the Faculty of Communication at Blanquerna,[https://web.archive.org/web/20131029193341/http://itunesu.blanquerna.url.edu/comunicacio/?p=3601 «El professor Joan Carreras publica ‘Carretera secundària'»] where he teaches digital journalism. He worked for a decade at the broadcasting company Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals, where he was director of Canal 33 and in charge of the creation of the program Info-K. At website 324.cat he has experimented with new formats and digital narratives.{{cite book |last= Gordillo |first= Saül|title= Sobirania.cat|publisher= Creat |page= 178 }} He has also worked for several newspapers, as Avui, Diari de Barcelona and El Temps.
Cafè Barcelona (Edicions Proa) is the fifth novel by Joan Carreras. His characters often don't express what they really mean. They have secrets. They are moving between Amsterdam and Barcelona, and the blame pursues them. The writer gives them another opportunity.{{cite news |last= Marimon |first= Sílvia |title= Joan Carreras |newspaper= Ara |location= Barcelona }} The novel was awarded the Premi Ciutat de Barcelona at 2014.{{cite news |title= Connexió directa|url= http://www.btv.cat/alacarta/connexio-barcelona/28966/ |newspaper= BTV |access-date= 7 February 2014}}
By 2014, he also received the Premi Sant Jordi de novel·la for his novel L'àguila negra.{{cite journal |title= Joan Carreras, premi Sant Jordi de novel·la |trans-title= Joan Carreras has been awarded the premi Sant Jordi de novel·la |url= http://www.ara.cat/cultura/Merce-Cuartiella-premi-Rodoreda_0_1271273126.html |language= ca |journal= Ara |date= 22 December 2014 |location= Barcelona |access-date= 22 December 2014}}
Works
= Story collections =
- 1990 – Les oques van descalces (Quaderns Crema)
- 1993 – La bassa del gripau (Quaderns Crema)
= Novels =
- 1998 – La gran nevada (Empúries)[https://archive.today/20130629121318/http://www.illadelsllibres.com/index.php/2012/03/29/joan-carreras-el-llibre-va-ser-meu-pero-ja-no-ho-es-ara-es-de-cada-lector/ Joan Carreras publica la quarta novel·la Carretera secundària]
- 2003 – Qui va matar el Floquet de Neu (Empúries)
- 2009 – L'home d'origami (Amsterdam)[http://homeorigamic.wordpress.com/ Blog oficial del llibre]
- 2012 – Carretera secundària (Proa)[http://www.proa.cat/ca/llibre/carretera-secundaria_17464.html Carretera secundària]
- 2013 – Cafè Barcelona (Proa)
- 2015 – L'àguila negra
- 2017 – La dona del cadillac (Proa){{cite news|title=Jaume Cabré, Rafel Nadal, Sílvia Soler i Xavier Bosch, entre les novetats del 2017|work=Diari de Girona|url=http://www.diaridegirona.cat/cultura/2017/01/05/jaume-cabre-rafel-nadal-silvia/822316.html|date=6 January 2017}}
Awards and honours
- 2012 – Premis Literaris de Cadaqués – Carles Rahola de periodisme. Postals de la nostàlgia des de Cadaqués
- 2014 – Premi Ciutat de Barcelona of Catalan literature for his book Cafè Barcelona
- 2014 – Premi Sant Jordi de novel·la for his book L'àguila negra
Notes
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.janquim.cat}}
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Category:Journalists from Catalonia