Jesús Moncada
Writer, Deceased Person
1941 – 2005
Who was Jesús Moncada?
Jesús Moncada i Estruga, 1941 - Barcelona, June 13, 2005 was an Aragonese writer in Catalan.
Considered one of the most important Catalan authors of his time, he received various prizes for his work, among them the Premio Ciutat de Barcelona and the Premio Nacional de la Crítica in 1989 for Camí de sirga and the Creu de Sant Jordi, awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya in 2001. In 2004—a few months before his death—he received the Premio de las Letras Aragonesas.
Moncada is one of the most translated authors of Catalan literature. Camí de sirga has been translated into fifteen languages, among them Japanese and Vietnamese. He also translated into Catalan many Spanish, French, and English works of authors such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Alexandre Dumas, père, Jules Verne, and Boris Vian.
On July 9, 2005, he returned to Mequinenza, where he was awarded the title of "favorite son." He died on June 13, 2005 from cancer.
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