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Jordi Puntí, Sant Jordi Award thanks to the immortal musician and storyteller Xavier Cugat
Shouting ‘long live literature’ and throwing into the air a handful of confetti that he had taken out of his pocket, like the one he found in his jacket after…
The hidden oasis of Barcelona where Jordi Puntí seeks respite
Curiously for a construction with almost a century and a half of history, the Umbracle of the Ciutadella remains the favorite secret of a few, a kind of “private refuge,”…
The Barcelona of Mr. Esteve, by Jordi Puntí
This city is and will be the Barcelona of the botiguers, that of Mr. Esteve. But now in 21st century version. This is what emerges from the judge’s ruling against…
Sundays in August, by Jordi Puntí
Every year in August I read a novel by Patrick Modiano. This summer it was the turn of ‘Sympathetic ink’, his last translated title (in Anagrama, in Catalan in Proa).…
How much does a sentence weigh?, article by Jordi Puntí
I have a thick book in my hands and I wonder: how much does a sentence weigh? Perhaps it is something irrelevant from a physical, material point of view, but…
The denunciation of the informer, article by Jordi Puntí
Here’s a memory from when I was 10 or 12 years old and going to the de la Salle brothers. Sometimes the teacher—the ‘brother’—was absent from class for a while…