Terenci Moix (Barcelona

Barcelona

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, 5 January 1942 - Barcelona

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, 2 April de 2003) was a Spanish Catalan writer who wrote in Spanish

Spanish language

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 and in Catalan

Catalan language

Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...

. He is also the brother of poet/novelist Anna Maria Moix.

He had a self-taught education. His first work, "La torre de los vicios capitales" was published in 1968. Many of his early works criticised the values of his time, especially the official morality of Francoism. Other works explored camp aesthetics, an element of his work studied by Timothy M. McGovern. He wrote in several newspapers: Tele-Exprés, Tele-Estel, El Correo Catalán, Destino

Destino

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, Nuevos Fotogramas, Serra d'Or

Serra d'Or

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 and El País. He was openly homosexual and participated many TV gatherings. He died of lung emphysema

Emphysema

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 related to his use of tobacco

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.

An annual literature prize, bearing his name, the Terenci Moix Fundación Arena de Narrativa Gay y Lésbica has been instituted; won most recently by the Anglo-Spanish novelist Rafael Peñas Cruz

Rafael Peñas Cruz

Rafael Peñas Cruz has been a novelist since 2004.He was born in Pozoblanco in Cordoba in Spain. His parents moved to Barcelona when he was young, and he graduated in English Literature from the city’s university, before coming to London to study and live in summer 1992.After completing an MA in...

for his coming-of-age work "Charlie".

Novels

• La torre de los vicios capitales
• El dia que va morir Marilyn
• Olas sobre una roca desierta
• Món mascle
• La caiguda de L'imperi sodomita
• La increada conciencia de la raza o melodrama
• Sadistic, esperpentic i adhuc metafisic
• Nuestro Virgen de los mártires
• Amami, Alfredo! o polvo de estrellas
• No digas que fue un sueño
• Garras de astracan"
• Mujercisimas
• La herida de la esfinge
• El arpista ciego

Collections of Short Stories

La torre de los vicios capitales
"Tots els contes" ("Todos los cuentos")

Essays

• Iniciació a una història del cine
• Los cómics, arte para el consumo y formas pop
• El sadismo de nuestra infancia
• Terenci del Nilo
• Crónicas italianas
• Hollywood stories (2 vols.)
• Tres viajes románticos