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Terenci Moix
Born	Ramon Moix i Meseguer ( 1942-01-05 ) 5 January 1942 Barcelona Spain
Died	2 April 2003 (2003-04-02) (aged 61) Barcelona Spain
Occupation	writer , novelist
Language	Spanish, Catalan
Nationality	Spanish
Notable awards	Ramon Llull Novel Award (1986) Fernando Lara Novel Award (1989)

Terenci Moix ( Catalan pronunciation: [t????nsi ?mo?] ; real name Ramon Moix i Meseguer ; 5 January 1942 – 2 April 2003) was a Spanish writer, who wrote in the Spanish and in Catalan languages. He was the brother of poet/novelist Ana Maria Moix .

Life and work [ edit ]

Moix was born and died in Barcelona . He was self-taught, and his first work, La torre de los vicios capitales ( La torre dels vicis capitals in Catalan), was published in 1968. Many of his early works criticised the values of his time, especially the official morality of Francoism . In 1990, he wrote and published a children's book called, Los Grandes Mitos del Cine (English version as "The Greatest Stories of Hollywood Cinema"), which is illustrated by Willi Glasauer , and published by Circulo de Lectores . This children's book includes fun facts, trivia, and information accompanied by photos and Willi Glasauer 's illustrations of the classic Hollywood films and stars such as Casablanca , Gone with the Wind , Cleopatra , and Tarzan the Ape Man .

He wrote in several newspapers: Tele-Expres , Tele-Estel , El Correo Catalan , Destino , Serra d'Or , and El Pais . He was openly homosexual , and participated in many TV gatherings. ^{[ citation needed ]}

Death [ edit ]

Moix died of emphysema on 2 April 2003 in Barcelona. ^{[ citation needed ]}

Awards [ edit ]

In 1967 he won the Merce Rodoreda Award for La torre dels vicis capitals . In 1992, he won the Ramon Llull Novel Award for El sexe dels angels . ^[1] In 1996, he became the first winner of the Fernando Lara Novel Award for his then-unpublished work El amargo don de la belleza . ^[2]

An annual literature prize , bearing his name, the Terenci Moix Fundacion Arena de Narrativa Gay y Lesbica , has been instituted. ^{[ citation needed ]} It was won most recently by Spanish novelist Rafael Penas Cruz for his coming-of-age work, Charlie . ^{[ citation needed ]}

Novels [ edit ]

• La torre de los vicios capitales
• El dia que murio Marilyn
• Olas sobre una roca desierta
• Mon mascle
• La caiguda de L'imperi sodomita
• La increada conciencia de la raza o melodrama
• Sadistic, esperpentic i adhuc metafisic
• Nuestro Virgen de los martires
• Amami, Alfredo! o polvo de estrellas
• No digas que fue un sueno
• Garras de astracan
• Mujercisimas
• La herida de la esfinge
• El arpista ciego
• El amargo don de la belleza (2011), ISBN   84-08-01899-X

Collections of short stories [ edit ]

• La torre de los vicios capitals
• Tots els contes ( Todos los cuentos )

Essays [ edit ]

• Iniciacio a una historia del cine
• Los comics, arte para el consumo y formas pop
• El sadismo de nuestra infancia
• Terenci del Nilo
• Cronicas italianas
• Hollywood stories (2 vols.)
• The Greatest Stories of Hollywood Cinema (Illustrated by Willi Glasauer ), ( Circulo de Lectores )
• Tres viajes romanticos

References [ edit ]

https://www.tablondeanuncios.com/colecciones/terence_moix_la_noche_no_es_hermosa-3299412.htm

External links [ edit ]

• Terenci Moix at the Association of Catalan Language Writers, AELC. In Catalan, English and Spanish.