Joan-Lluís Lluís

Joan-Lluís Lluís (Perpignan, 1963). Writer and journalist. He studied Art History at the University of Montpellier. He has published mostly novels plenty of them award-winning, often with a personal narrative that sets him apart from many other writers of his generation. Among others, he has published Els ulls de sorra (1993), El dia de l’ós (2005), Aiguafang (2009), Xocolata desfeta (2010) or Cròniques d’un déu coix (2014). In Els invisibles (2020), a little gem, he narrates his personal sentimental and ideological journey through the Catalan language and with Salives (2021) publishes his first book of poems.

After traveling to the XIXth century New Caledonia in El navegant (Serra d’Or Critics Award, Proa 2016) and raising the uchrony of the murder of a dictator in Jo soc aquell que va matar Franco (Sant Jordi Award, Proa 2018), Lluís sets a major challenge in Junil a les terres dels bàrbars (Club Editor, 2021) where he tells the life of a young woman despised by her father who, on the edge of the Roman Empire, learns to read against all odds and sets out on a journey on foot through unknown lands (Omnum Award, 2022).

Now he captivates us once again with a modern fable, Una cançó de pluja (Club Editor, 2025), to narrate the journey of the orangutan Ella-Calla, from her escape from the ship where she was being held to the heart of the jungle she wants to return to. There, she will come face to face with horror.