Joan Carreras

Joan Carreras (Barcelona, 1962) has won the Sant Jordi and Ciutat de Barcelona awards.

He has worked as a journalist and since 2011 is a professor at the Facultat de Comunicació Blanquerna.

He began his literary career with two books of short stories published in the prestigious house Quaderns Crema, 1991 and 1993. Later, the first two novels -La gran nevada and Qui va matar el Floquet de Neu- and the provocative work L'home d'origami were published in Empúries and Ara Llibres.

Since 2012 he publishes in the solid house Proa Carretera secundària (best book of the year in Catalan according to TimeOut magazine), Cafè Barcelona (located in Amsterdam, it deserved the award Ciutat de Barcelona 2013 and several editions), L’àguila negra, a book that deserved the Sant Jordi Award, the most prestigious prize in Catalan literature, and La dona del Cadillac, an absorbing thriller.

Torno a casa (Back Home), his latest novel also published in Proa, is an allegorical journey to a place from where no one has returned.