Juan Goytisolo

Juan Goytisolo Gay (5 January 1931 4 June 2017) was a Spanish poet, essayist,
Juan Goytisolo
and novelist. He lived in Marrakech from 1997 until his death in 2017. He was
considered Spain's greatest living writer at the beginning of the 21st century, yet he
had lived abroad since the 1950s. On 24 November 2014 he was awarded the
Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world.

Contents
1 Background
2 Career
3 Family
4 Works
4.1 Fiction
4.2 Essays
4.3 Others Goytisolo in 2008

5 Literary prizes
Born Juan Goytisolo Gay[1]
5 January 1931
6 References
Barcelona, Spain
7 External links
Died 4 June 2017
(aged 86)
Marrakech, Morocco
Background Occupation Novelist, short story
writer, poet, essayist
Juan Goytisolo was born to an aristocratic family. He claimed that this level of
privilege, accompanied by the cruelties of his great-grandfather and the miserliness Nationality Spanish
of his grandfather (discovered through the reading of old family letters and Period 19542017
documents), was a major reason for his joining the Communist party in his youth.[2] Literary Post-Modernism
His father was imprisoned by the Republican government during the Spanish Civil movement
War, while his mother, Julia Gay, was killed in the first Francoist air raid of Notable Count Julian
works
Barcelona in 1938.[3]
Notable Miguel de Cervantes
awards Prize
Career 2014
Spouse Monique Lange
After law studies, Goytisolo published his first novel, The Young Assassins, in 1954.
His deep opposition to Francisco Franco led him into exile in Paris in 1956, where Relatives Luis Goytisolo, Jos
he worked as a reader for Gallimard. In the early 1960s, he was a friend of Guy
Agustn
Debord. Breaking with the realism of his earlier novels, he published Marks of
Identity (1966), Count Julian (1970), and Juan the Landless (1975). As with all his works, they were banned in Spain until after
Franco's death.

Count Julian (1970, 1971, 1974) takes up, in an act of outspoken defiance, the side of Julian, count of Ceuta, a man traditionally
castigated as the ultimatetraitor in Spanish history. In Goytisolo's own words, he imagines "the destruction of Spanish mythology, its
Catholicism and nationalism, in a literary attack on traditional Spain." He identifies himself "with the great traitor who opened the
door to Arab invasion." The narrator in this novel, an exile in North Africa, rages against his beloved Spain, forming an obsessive
identification with the fabled Count Julian, dreaming that, in a future invasion, the ethos and myths central to Hispanic identity will
be totally destroyed.

Family
Goytisolo was married to the publisher, novelist and screenwriter Monique Lange, related to Emmanuel Berl and the philosopher
Henri Bergson.[4] Lange died in 1996. After her death, he was noted as saying their once-shared Paris apartment had become like a
tomb. In 1997 he moved toMarrakech, where he died in 2017.

His brothers Jos Agustn Goytisolo(19281999) and Luis Goytisolo (1935) were also writers.[5]

Works
For decades, my name was more popular in police stations than bookshops,
Fiction and I do not mean to compliment the literary awareness of Spanish policemen.[6]
Juan Goytisolo
The Young Assassins (Juegos
de manos) (1954)
Duelo en el Paraso (1955)
El maana efmero (trilogy)

El circo (1957)
Fiestas (1958)
La Resaca (1958)
Para vivir aqu (1960)
La isla (1961)
La Chanca (1962)
Fin de fiesta. Tentativas de interpretacin deuna historia amorosa (1962)
lvaro Mendiola (trilogy)

Marks of Identity (Seas de identidad, 1966)

Count Julian (Reivindicacin del conde don Julin, 1970)
Juan the Landless (Juan sin Tierra, 1975)
Makbara (1980)
Paisajes despus de la batalla(1985)
Las virtudes del pjaro solitario(1988)
La cuarentena (1991)
El sitio de los sitios (1995)
Las semanas del jardn(1997)
The Marx Family Saga(1999), (La saga de los Marx, 1993)
State of Siege (2002)
Teln de boca (2003)
A Cock-Eyed Comedy (2005) (Carajicomedia, 2000)
Exiled from Almost Everywhere(El exiliado de aqu y all, 2008)

Essays
Problemas de la novela(1959). Literature.
Furgn de cola (1967).
Espaa y los espaoles(1979). History and politics.
Crnicas sarracinas (1982).
El bosque de las letras(1995). Literature.
Disidencias (1996). Literature.
 De la Ceca a la Meca. Aproximaciones al mundo islmico(1997).
Cogitus interruptus (1999).
El peaje de la vida (2000). With Sami Nair.
Landscapes of War: From Sarajevo to Chechnya (2000).
El Lucernario: la pasin crtica deManuel Azaa (2004).

Others
Campos de Njar (1954). Travels, journalism.
Pueblo en marcha. Tierras de Manzanillo. Instantneas de un viaje a Cuba(1962). Travels, journalism.
Obra inglesa de Blanco White (1972). Editor.
Coto vedado (1985). Memoir.
En los reinos de taifa (1986). Memoir.
Alquibla (1988). TV script for TVE.
Estambul otomano (1989). Travels.
Aproximaciones a Gaud en Capadocia (1990). Travels.
Cuaderno de Sarajevo (1993). Travels, journalism.
Argelia en el vendaval (1994). Travels, journalism.
Paisajes de guerra conChechenia al fondo (1996). Travels, journalism.
Lectura del espacio enXema-El-Fn (1997). Illustrated by Hans Werner Geerdts.
El universo imaginario (1997).
Dilogo sobre la desmemoria, los tabes y el olvido(2000). Conversation withGnter Grass.
Paisajes de guerra: Sarajevo, Argelia,Palestina, Chechenia (2001).
Pjaro que ensucia su propio nido(2001). Articles.
Memorias (2002).
Espaa y sus Ejidos (2003).
Cinema Eden: Essays from the Muslim Mediterranean(Eland, 2003) an English-language translation of several of
his essays

Literary prizes
1985: Europalia Prize for Literature
1993: Nelly Sachs Prize
2002: Octavio Paz Prize
2004: Juan Rulfo Prize for Latin American and Caribbean Literature
2008: National Prize for Spanish Literature
2010: Premio Don Quijote[7]
2012: Prix Formentor
2014: Miguel de Cervantes Prize[8]

References
1. El Pas (http://www.elpais.com/todo-sobre/persona/Juan/Goytisolo/Gay/36/)Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/2
0100729090418/http://www.elpais.com/todo-sobre/persona/Juan/Goytisolo/Gay/36/)2010-07-29 at the Wayback
Machine. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
2. Goytisolo, Juan. Forbidden Territory. New York: Verso, 2003.
3. "[H]is mother, killed during the Spanish Civil War, was Julia Gay". George E. Haggerty, Gay Histories and Cultures:
An Encyclopedia, p. 413.
4. Kirkup, James (4 December 1996)."Obituary: Monique Lange"(http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-
monique-lange-1312919.html). The Independent. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
5. "Luis Goytisolo, el novelista que "escribe con los pies
" " (http://www.eldiario.es/cultura/Luis-Goytisolo-novelista-escri
be-pies_0_445155752.html)(in Spanish). El Diario. 25 October 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
6. Quoted in Eberstadt, cited above.
 7. (in Spanish) "Los protagonistas de la lengua"(http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2010/10/26/actualidad/1288044011_8
50215.html) El Pas Retrieved 30 June 2013.
8. Javier Rodriguez Marcos (23 April 2015)."Cervantes prizewinner laments state of Spain during ceremony"(http://elp
ais.com/elpais/2015/04/23/inenglish/1429799756_506607.html) . El Pais. Retrieved 27 April 2015.

External links
(in Spanish) Official Page
"Scourge of the New Spain", an article on Goytisolo fromThe Guardian
Interview with Goytisolofrom the Center for Book Culture
Juan Goytisolo at the complete review bibliography, evaluation, and links
Fernanda Eberstadt, The Anti-Orientalist, The New York Times Magazine article, April 16, 2006
Miles, Valerie (2014). A Thousand Forests in One Acorn. Rochester: Open Letter. pp. 167174. ISBN 978-1-934824-
91-7.
Juan Goytisolo, Voltaire and Islam, El Pas, 4 May 2006
Juan Goytisolo, La historia se escibe en la plazaEl Pas, 14 February 2011

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