Albert Villaró

Albert Villaró (Andorran born in La Seu d'Urgell in 1964) is a historian who has built, book after book, an unclassifiable and multifaceted novelistic corpus.

His first work, La selva moral (1993), is a gallery of portraits of mountain people, halfway between the description of manners, absurd humor and false erudition. His first novels, Les ànimes sordes (Deaf Souls) and, above all, Obaga (Keep My Cows), are a parody of the stereotypes of the crime novel transferred to rural environments that are sometimes presented with a slyness that borders on the sarcasm.

Afterwards, he has set his fictions in contemporary Andorra with the creation of the character of Andreu Boix, police officer -Blau de Prússia (Prussian Blue), Carlemany Award; L'escala del dolor (The scale of pain), La bíblia andorrana (The Andorran Bible), Prudenci Bertrana Award-, and other novels with more diverse approaches such as L'any dels francs or La primera pràctica (The First Practice) whose common denominator is a fanciful re-election of the past, as seen even more clearly in the ucronías Els Ambaixadors (The Ambassadors), Josep Pla Award and El Sindicat de l'Oblit (The Oblivion Union).

La Companyia Nòrdica (The Nordic Company) is his last novel (2020).

"​I write about things I know, about characters that I make up, and about stories that could have been."

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