Toni Cucarella

Who is Toni Cucarella?

Toni Cucarella is the pen-name of Lluís Antoni Navarro i Cucarella, a writer born in Xàtiva, Valencia in 1959.

He began to work at fourteen years old, doing all kinds of jobs, the latest as a postman. Amongst his work it's worth mentioning the following novels: Cool:fresc, El poeta, Bogart & Bogart and L'última paraula, which earned him the 'Ciutat de Badalona' and 'Critica dels Escriptors Valencians' awards. He has also written the collection of stories La lluna vista des de la terra a través de tele and Llet agra i altres històries com sagrades. Quina lenta agonia, la dels ametlers perduts won the Andromina Award 2003 as part of the XXXII edition of the October Awards for Catalan Literature.

In young fiction he has written Els ponts del diable, Samaruc Award for Young Fiction, and El lledoner de l'Home Mort. He has written articles for Levante-El Mercantil Valenciano, El Punt, Caracters, Ciudad de Alcoi i Vilaweb. At one point in the elections of 2007, he became a candidate for Esquerra Republicana for the Spanish Parliament but has since returned to private life and occasionally published short stories at his blog.