Jordi de Manuel

Who is Jordi de Manuel?

Jordi de Manuel i Barrabín teaches Natural Sciences and is also a writer who combines literature with teaching and research. He is a member of the SCCFF.

He has published stories and novels for children and adolescents, among them, El pes de la por, El somni de la nena bruna, which was awarded the City of Eivissa Prize for Children’s Literature in 2000, De tots colors, Els ulls d’Abdeslam, Set de llops, and El beuratge.

He has also written novels and stories for adults, including Tres somnis blaus, which received the 2000 Valldaura Prize, Cels taronges which was awarded the Ciutat de Mollerussa Prize in 2001, Cabells porpres, winner of the 2002 Pere Calders Prize for Catalan Literature, Pantera negra, winner of the 2004 Sant Just Desvern Fiction Prize for Prose under the pseudonym Joan Gols, and Calcs, winner of the 2005 Manuel de Pedrolo Science Fiction Prize. His collection of stories entitled Disseccions, was awarded the Odissea Readers’ Prize, the only literary award with a jury consisting of one hundred readers.