Berlin Zoo
1. The Production of the Original Novel in Catalan
-> Sponsored by the Institution of the Catalan Letters:
“Beca ILC per a creadors culturals per a una estada a Berlín 1989”
2. The Reception of the Novel
-> Berlín Zoo won the Cassà Prose Prize 1990 (Jury: Assumpció Cantalozella, Joan Carreras, Josep Maria Fonolleras, Narcís Pladevall & Toni Ruscalleda.
El Punt. Cultura, 29 April 1990, p. 22.
El Punt Cultura, 1 May 1990, p. 22.
Berlín-Zoo. Barcelona: Ed. de la Magrana, 1991. 232 pages
-> Cover: photograph of the author by Carme Puértola
-> Book Page Marker here
-> Selected within “Los 100 del Periódico” (100 best titles for World Book Day including Foreign Authors, Children Books, Juvenil Fiction Essay and Poetry: “ “Los 100 libros que a nuestro juicio son los más interesantes de entre los que se pueden hallar en el mercado por Sant Jordi”), El Periódico, (23/4/1991): VIII.
Presentation in Arenys de Mar with Fèlix Cucurull & Teresa d’Arenys
§ Review by Ferran de Pol in Arenys, núm 511, May 1991. p. 136-137.
§ Interview by Lluís Bonada in El Temps (20/05/1991): 69.
§ Mention by Jordi Casellas in El Diari de Barcelona, (23/4/1991): 19.
Presentation in Vic with Antoni Pladevall (7/6/1991)
§ Interview by Enric Martín in El 9 nou (7/6/1991): 27.
§ Review by Víctor Sunyol in El 9 nou (24/6/1991): 18.
§ Review by Joan Josep Isern in Avui (20/04/1991): IV.
§ Selected Books April 1991. Cultura, April 1991, p.3.
§ Selected book May 1991. by Cercle de Lectors and Grup del Llibre
§ Review by Antoni Pladevall in Revista de Catalunya 54 (Jul-Aug.1991):157-158-
Presentation in Occitany: Escòla Occitana d’Estiu, Vilanova d’Olt, 19/7/1991.
§ Review by Enric Bou in El País (18/7/1991): VII.
§ Review by Lluís Figuerola in Avui (10/08/1991): VIII.
Presentation in Barcelona with Maria Oleart & Jaume Fuster. (15/11/1991)
§ Review by Pau Joan Hernández in Diari de Barcelona (29/11/1991): II.
§ Manuscript Letter Signed 12/12/1991 by Marie Claire Zimmernann, Director of the Centre for Catalan Studies in Sorbonne Paris IV praising the novel and announcing it in the Centre Library.
Berlín-Zoo. [Special edition. Recommended Novel 1992]. Barcelona: Cercle de Lectors, May 1992.
Translated into Occitan by Gilabèrt Narioo as “Letra de Pau”. Pau: Reclams. (October 1992): 9-22.
Presentation in Paris. Centre d’Études Catalanes – Sorbonne within the Conference “L’escriptor català i el viatge. Una mirada a l’univers de l’altre by author. (27/04/1993)
Presentation in Chur (Switzerland) In Kleinsprachen – Grosssprachen- Literatur der Minderheiten (10-12 June). Readings. 10/6/ 1994.
1. From Idea to Completion (2014-2019)
The “embryo”: “ Writing in a Minority Language: A Damnation or a Blessing”. Talk & Reading with Dr. Marta Minkiewicz and Armando Cruz. at Księgarnia Hiszpańska, Wroclaw, Poland, 16 September 2014.
The idea: by Dr. Ron Puppo, 2016 “Serra d'Or” Critics Prize Winner including the novel in the 2015 Institute Ramon Llull Translation Workshop: https://www.tradiling.net/literary-translation-workshop/
The translation of the 10 chapters’ novel by Dr. Kathleen McNerney, 2019 North American Catalan Society award-winning literary translator.