Bernat Joan, writer month

Can the Windy City Library, in Ibiza, has declared the month of February to Bernat Joan as writer of the month. Born in Eivissa in February 1960 He is a doctor in Catalan philology and professor of Catalan language and literature at the IES Santa Maria de Eivissa.

Desde 1982 He was a professor at the Institute of Educational Sciences of the courses of recycling of Catalan Language for teachers in the Balearic Islands. It was also co-founder of the Earth Defense Movement (MDT) in Ibiza in 1984 y co-founder of the Platform for the Language, MEP for ERC in the European Parliament of 2004 A 2007 within the group The Greens/Free Alliance European. de 2007 A 2010 He was Secretary General of Linguistic Policy of the Generalitat of Catalonia. Es miembro Honorario de la Aliança Lliure Europea, from 2009.

Bernat Joan has cultivated various genres, like the narrative (Novela, story short, children's story), essay and theater and has published numerous books on sociolinguistics and politics.

It is also author of an informative summary in several languages of the history of Ibiza with Mediterrània-Eivissa publishing house. In the most literary field, is the author of the novelsBall de voltors; Espectral; Murdered to the institute; Adrenalina tòxica yunder the marfega.
He has also published collections of short stories such asten variations on the hood; Sirventesos Pedagogy for a indigenous, as well as numerous literary essays such asMaria Villangómez, des de l’illa, as well as various theatrical works and children's works such asEl gegant des Vedrà; Lysistrata; Fatima to Tehran; Subway/Soterrani; Trio of black yAntropofàgia; The love that you need; Vella dalt una figuera; Jocs de matances.

has written more than 3500 journalistic articles to around twenty diverse publications. He has been a contributor to various media and currently publishes a column in Diari from the Balearic Islands on a regular basis.

He has won, among others, the Ciutat d'Eivissa Award for Narrative Children withEl Drac Vermell (1993) ythe demon Cockroach and the wise tree (2003); the Ibiza City Prize of Fiction withDeu variacions sobre la Caputxeta (1999); the St. John's Night Award conCriptació o llibertat?; Attitudes linguistics among the young people of Ibiza (1999); the prize Baladre withVeure i viure (notes d’aeroport i de carretera).

en 2003 he received the Mention of Honor from the Institute of Ibizan Studies (IEE) and in 2007 the Francesc Ferrer i Gironès essay prize withA trip atypical from the hand of a separatist candidate. en 2019 the Work Balearic Cultural (OCB) awarded him the Prize 31 December.

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