Jordi Sierra i Fabra

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Jordi Sierra i Fabra (Barcelona, July 26, 1947) is a Spanish writer. His works of children's and youth literature have been published in Spain and Latin America. He has also been a scholar of pop music since the late 1960s. He was one of the founders of the Cadena Ser program 'El Gran Musical'. He is known in schools for his book " The murder of the Music teacher.

Biography

He was born on July 26, 1947. At the age of 8 he had a serious accident, and from the ages of ten to twelve he wrote several hundred-page novels; At twelve he already had written one of five hundred. He finished school at sixteen and passed his high school exam in the summer of 1964. He suffered violent bullying by the schoolyard bullies. He commented on his childhood and youth that the Public Order Court (TOP) booked him at age 21 for writing in a clandestine magazine and took away his passport. He bribed a soldier to avoid military service. In October 1964 he started working in construction during the day and studying to be a quantity surveyor at night, in a night school, he was forced by his father. Over the next six years he began listening to the radio and saving to buy rock records and learned English by listening to it by ear.

Thanks to the insistent twenty-page letters that he sent per week to the Radio Madrid program (Cadena SER) El Gran Musical, he was commissioned to write a magazine in 1968. He also published articles and collaborations in La Prensa of Barcelona and Nuevo Diario of Madrid. He then went on to direct the weekly Disco Exprés (1970-1978) and published his first book in 1972: 1962-72 History of Pop Music , the first of its kind in Spain and widely sold. He collaborates in a large number of music magazines: Top Magazine , Extra etc. He had two sons. He was a founding member, editor and finally director of Popular 1 (1973-1976), a monthly rock magazine, and of Super Pop . In 1978 he was a finalist (fourth place) for the Planeta award, and in 1979 he received the Ateneo de Sevilla award. In 1981 he received his first Gran Angular Prize for youth literature, which he received again in 1983 and 1991; He has a great success with Young Lennon , best-seller juvenile. His work has been translated into Italian, German, French, Greek, Bulgarian, Portuguese, Slovak, Dutch, English, Japanese, etc. Some of his titles have been adapted to film, television or theater. In 2002 a survey declared that he is the most read living author in schools in Spain. He is also the same in libraries. In 2012 he published My (first) 400 books. Literary memoirs of Jordi Sierra i Fabra.

Author of children's, youth and adult literature, he has published a total of 527 books until 2021. His novel, Like Tears in the Rain , won the Lazarillo Prize and is Spain's candidate for the 2022 Hans Christian Andersen Prize.

Jordi Sierra i Fabra Foundations

The Jordi Sierra i Fabra Foundation of Barcelona, inaugurated in 2004, is a private, non-profit entity financed by its promoter, with the primary objective of helping young writers at the beginning of their literary career, in addition to promoting pleasure in reading as an essential vehicle of training. This foundation annually awards the Jordi Sierra i Fabra Literary Prize for young people.

The same year, the author created the Jordi Serra i Fabra Taller de Letras Foundation in Medellín (Colombia) with the aim of promoting reading and literary creation among children, young people and adults. She was awarded the IBBY-ASAHI International Award in 2010 for the best work promoting reading for the Formation of a Reading Community project.

Works

Narrative and essay

Miguel and I-1975
The world of golden rats - Ed. Mars 1975

Living nightmares! -Castillo 2008 The revolution of December 32nd – Ed. ATE 1976

Complot in Madrid – Ed nes Heres 1978
Blood-false tears
Terror and death in the world – Publications Heres 1978
Manicomio - Ed. ATE 3000
In the Canary Islands the sun has been set – Planet 1979
The roll of our every day - Ed. ATE 1980
Crazy Planet - Ed. ATE 1981
Night - Ed. Clip 1991
The dogs of the rain – Plaza & Janés 1991
Unitat de plaer – Column 1993
Johnny Pickup's return – Calpe Stadium 1995
The skin of memory – Baula 1995
Els miralls de la nit – Column 1996
Cuba, the night of the rider – Editions of the Bronze 1997
Comrade Orlov – Editions of the Bronze 1998 / Reading Point 2005
Flashback (Clau: MX) – Cruïlla 1998
Les veus de la ciutat – Column 1998
The mirrors of the night – Editions of the Bronze 1999
The drac vol. – Column 1999
Seven nights of a life – Editions of the Bronze 2000
My savages rockers – Mask 2000
Return to Havana – Editions of the Bronze 2001
The weight of silence – Editions of the Bronze 2002
The Time of Exile, Vol. 1: Dark Years - Planet 2002
The time of exile, vol. 2: The years of waiting - Planet 2003
The Time of Exile, Vol. 3: The Red Years - Planet 2003
Schizoid – Pagès Editors 2004
The pell of the revolt – Column 2004
Earth Chronicle 2 – Minotauro 2005
Assassinat to El Club – Column 2005
Sinaia – Column 2007
Return to Havana – Robinbook 2007
Dialogues – Espuma 2009 pages
The Murder of Johann Sebastian Bach – Belacqva 2010
Dear Son, we are on strike 2012

Inspector Mascarell Series

Four days of January/ Quatre dies de gener. 2008.
Seven days of July/ Set dies of Julyl. 2010.
5 October/ Cinc dies d'octubre. 2011.
2 days of May/ 2 dies de maig. 2013
Six days of December/ Sis dies. 2014.
9 April/ Nou dies d'abril. 2015.
Three days of August/ Three dies d'agost. 2016.
Eight days of March/ Vuit dies de març. 2017.
Ten days of June/ Deu dies de juny. 2018.
A day of September and some of October/ A day of sethembre i uns quants d'octubre. 2019.
Some days of November. 2020.
Some days of January. 2021.
Some days of February. 2022.
Some days of April. 2023

Commissioner Soler Series

The Death of the Census - 2017
Filo de sable -2017
on the other side of hell -2017
Just a bitter movie -2018
Me and Miguel-1975

History

1962-1972 History of Pop Music – Edunisa 1970
Annex to History of Pop Music – Professional Group 1973
Myths of English pop – Professional Group 1973
Història i poder del Rock Català – Edicommunication 1977
The book of the year – Publications Heres 1977
History of Rock Music – Edicommunication 1978-1986
Disc-rock-prints, the rock gold book – Edicommunication 1981
History of Rock Music – Orbis 1981-1983
Heavy Metal Encyclopedia – Edicommunication 1987
Good-looking Cadáveres (Black Rock Chronicle) – Ultramar 1988
Rock, the music of our time - FS 1990
It generated rock – Column 1991
The Beatles Dictionary – Plaza y Janés 1992
A-Z Big Rock Encyclopedia – Orbis Fabri 1994-1996
Journal of the Beatles – Plaza y Janés 1995
The big pop-rock album – Lesson Circle 1997
Good-looking birds – The Mask 1999 (with Jordi Bianciotto)
The era rock 1953-2003 – Steps 2003
Bob Dylan – Folio 2005 (amb Jordi Bianciotto)
History and power of Catalan rock – Enderrock 2006
The blue kiss - HarperCollins Ibérica 2015
History of rock - Siruela 2016

The lost stories

Biographies

Pink Floyd (1) – Edicommunication 1976
Rolling Stones (1) – Edicommunication 1976
Who – Edicommunication 1000
Beatles (1) – Edicommunication 1976
David Bowie – Edicommunication 1977
Rick Wakeman – Edicommunication 1977
Santana – Edicommunication 1977
Peter Frampton – Edicommunication 1977
John Lennon (1) – Edicommunication 1978
John Mayall – Edicommunication1978
Bee Gees – Edicommunication 1978
Bob Dylan (1) – Edicommunication 1979
Led Zeppelin – Edicommunication 1979
Rod Stewart – Edicommunication 1980
Miguel Bosé - Ed. ATE 1980
John Lennon (2) – Edicommunication 1981
Pink Floyd (2) – Edicommunication 1982
Miguel Ríos – Lesson Circle 1985
Bob Dylan (2) – Lesson Circle 1986
Paul McCartney – Edicommunication 1986
Elvis Presley – Lesson Circle 1986
Beatles (2) – Lesson Circle 1987
Bruce Springsteen (1) – Edicommunication 1988
Michael Jackson – Edicommunication 1988
Joan Manuel Serrat – Ed.Thor 1988
Frank Sinatra – Lesson Circle 1988
Rolling Stones (2) – Reader Circle 1990
John Lennon (3) – Reader Circle 1990
John Lennon (4) – Empuries 1990
Sting – The Magrana 1991
Gandhi - FS 1991
Bruce Springsteen (2) – Empuries 1992
My name is Gandhi. - STJ 2000
John Lennon (5) – Editions Folio 2003
Bob Dylan (3) – Editions Folio 2005 (with Jordi Bianciotto)
John Lennon. Imagine this was real – Panamericana (Colombia) 2005
John Lennon, biography – Reading Point 2005
Estimat Ronaldinho / Dear Ronaldinho – Empúries 2004 / The Aleph 2005

Poetry

Songs, poems and feelings – Theorem 1981

I confess I have dreamed – Theorem 1987
Tales and poems for any month - Oxford 2005

Youth narrative

The hunter - FS 1981
...in a place called Earth (Trilogy “The Earth Cycle”) – SM 1983
Just love - Ed. Martínez Roca 1983
Back to a place called Earth (Trilogy “The Earth Cycle”) – SM 1986
The will of a place called Earth (Trilogy “The Earth Cycle”) – SM 1987
Last summer Miwok - FS 1987
Young Lennon – SM 1988 / Cruïlla 1992
When logic fails, the System calls... Zuk-1 - Pirene 1989
Shakanjoisha - FS 1989
The 21st Century Ballad - FS 1989
John Lennon's guitar – Timun Mas 1990
Looking for Jim Morrison – Timun Mas 1990
Kaopi – Alfaguara 1990
The Great Rock Festival – Timun Mas 1990
Blues Soul – Timun Mas 1990
The last set - FS 1991
Another song in paradise – Timun Mas 1991
The Cloud Factory - FS 1991
The sounds of silence – Timun Mas 1991
Soundtrack – Siruela 1993 / 2006
A pizza for A.F.Mac, private detective – Grijalbo Junior 1993
Fans – Calpe Espasa 1993
Friday night – Alfaguara 1993
Only for Zuk-1 - Celeste 1994
Bad Lands - FS 1994
Sgt.Pepper's killer – Edebé 1994
We'll never be rock stars – Alfaguara 1995
Six stories around Mario – Calpe Stadium 1995 / Oxford Planet 2005
The temps of l'oblit – Column 1993
The morning star - FS 1996
Moon Night in the Strait – Grijalbo 1996
Playing in the shadows of light – Edebé 1996
Concert in Sol Mayor (Joaquim Ruyra Youth Narrative Award) – La Galera 1997
Strawberry fields - FS 1997
Portrait of a stained teenager – Bruño 1997
The inner voice - FS 1997
The door of the Beyond – Spass 1997
Where my heart is – Edebé 1998 (Premi CCEI)
The music of the wind - Bronze 1998
A man with a fork in a land of soups – Bruño 1998
The Memory of Lost Beings - FS 1998
The Voices of the Future - FS 1998
The elect – Edebé 1998
Wire girls – Alfaguara 1999
Victor Jara (Reviewing Silences) - FS 1999
Rabia - FS 2000
Dear son, you're fired. – Alfaguara 2000
The gold of the gods - Bronze 2000
Sleeping on the mirrors – Associate Editors 2001
The Furies – Alfaguara 2001
Where the wind turns – Edebé 2001
97 ways of saying "I love you" – Gross 2001
One (simple) love story – Steps 2001
The face of the crowd - FS 2001
Mars XXIII – Grupo Editorial Norma (Colombia) 2001
27, fucking age – Alfaguara 2002
Casting - FS 2002
Invisible pain – Diagonal / Empúries 2002
In a place called war – Associate Editors 2002
The skin of memory – Edelvives 2002
Interior areas – Destination 2002 / Planet Oxford 2004
The murder of the math teacher - Anaya 2004
Dead time – Spass 2002
Looking for Bob - Anaya 2005
The Messenger of Fear – Bruño 2003
Day of shooting – Bruño 2003
The Song of Mani Blay – Bruño 2003
No time to dream – Bruño 2003
Border - FS 2003
The other side of the mirror – Destination 2005
The war of my brother - FS 2004
The celestial funeral – Bruño 2004
The smile of the devil - Algar 2004
The forgotten – Bruño 2004
In a corner of the heart – Bruño 2004
Soledades de Ana - Algar 2005
The gate of paradise – Edebé 2005
Crazy hill – Edelvives 2005
Out of the game - FS 2005
Seven minutes for revolution - FS 2005
The secret of the pearls – Panamericana (Colombia) 2005
No turning back - FS 2005
Kafka and the traveling wrist - Siruela 2006
Calling the gates of heaven – Edebé 2006
Blind on the golden beach - Pearson 2006
And they called him Columbus. – Edebé / Rodeira 2006
Gauditronix – Edebé 2006
The trace of the Magno ring – Edelvives 2006
L'assassinat del professor de matemàtiques – Barcanova 2006
Kafka i la nina que se'n va anar de viatge / Kafka y la wrist viajera / Kafka eta panpina bidaiaria – Empúries 2008 / Siruela 2006 / Elkar 2008
The teeth of the dragon - FS 2007
The frontiers of hell - FS 2007
Radiograph of noia amb tatuatge / X-ray girl with tattoo – Galera 2007
Memory Focs / Memory Fires – Bromera 2008 / Algar 2008
Blood tears – Alfaguara 2008
Les filles de les tempestes, vol.1: L'enigma maia / The daughters of storms, vol.1: The Mayan enigma – Edebé 2008
A sweet story of butterflies and dragonflies - Siruela 2008
The eyes of the soul – Pearson 2008
Les filles de les tempestes, vol.2: La creu del Nil / The daughters of the storms, vol.2: The cross of the Nile – Edebé 2008
Me. - FS 2008
Clouds in the sky – Intermón Oxfam 2008
Trilogy of land - Siruela 2008
L'empremta del silenci – Column 2009
Les filles de les tempestes, vol.3: The cinquè crystall / The daughters of the storms, vol.3: The fifth crystal – Edebé 2009
The Wars of Diego - Siruela 2009
Anatomy d'un «incident aïllat» – Cruïlla 2009
Movie verge (Perverse Counts) / Virgin Film (Perverse Counts) – Intermón Oxfam 2009
The island of the poet - Siruela 2009
Poe – Red Fox 2009
Don't you... – Column 2009
Conflict room / Conflict room – Baula / Edelvives 2009
The rest of the silenci – Àbacus 2009
History of a Second Editorial SM 2010
The new land – Alfaguara 2010
The barefoot model - Siruela 2010
Tester (Prover) / Tester (Probator) – Edebé 2010
The case of the false accident (Berta Mir 1) - Siruela 2010
The night of Sant Jordi - Alfaguara 2011
Dear Son, we are on strike – Alfaguara 2012
" Maybe tomorrow the word love... " -- FS 2012
Professor Palermo / L’extraordinari enginy parlant of professor Palermo – La Galera 2013
Plot – Anaya 20913
The heart of jade / The jade cor — SM/Cruïlla 2013
The White Hammer Case (Berta Mir 4) — Seruela 2013
They were also young / També van ser joves — Bamboo 2013
1714 – La Galera 2013
The terra sang – Onada 2014
Special effects / Efektu bereziak – Edelvives 2014 / Ibaizabal 2017
Denuda – SM 2014
For a handful of kisses (A little April, some May, all September) / Per un grapat de petons – Montena / Bromera 2014
Zigzag – Alfaguara 2014
The case of the invisible killer (Berta Mir 5) – Seruela 2014
South of No Part – Edebé 2014
All the girls are called Clara – Destination 2015
Just a machine! / I am a machine! – Bromera/Algar 2015
The apprentice of witch and the Invisible – Edebé 2016
Les paraules ferides - Amsterdam 2016
Short stories of endangered animals - Bruño 2016
Nobody on the other side - FS 2016
Dear child you have four parents - FS 2017
Paradise Rock - FS 2017
Tambè van ser joves - Bamboo 2017
A bag of fries in Polynesia - FS 2018
Revenge of the math teacher - 2018
Summer of the traveling rubber ball - Barcanova 2018
Don't go after you. - FS 2018
The Great Dream - Santillana Education 2018
Palmyra - 2018
36 questions to meet you and 4 minutes to love you – Edebé 2018
What I think (of all) / The one I think (about tot) / Or that I believe (of all) – Kalandraka 2018
Bad days (but bad, bad, bad) / Dies dolents (però dolents debò) – Algar / Bromera 2018
Dear Son, we are on strike
The fabulous world of letters
The murder of the language teacher

Others

Spanish pop mythology - Ed. Mars 1973
Barcelona unusual - FS 1991
Anthology of texts - FS 1996
50 raons per SER / NO SER from Barça – Column 2000
The written page — FS 2006
How strong! Planet Comic 2012

Awards and distinctions (selection)

1975 Villa de Bilbao Award
1979 Ateneo Prize in Seville
1996 Award im Ruyra of youth narrative, by Concert en sol major
2003 Ramón Muntaner Award for Youth Literature, by L'altra band of mirall
2004 Néstor Luján Prize for historical novel, by The pell of the revolt
2005 Fiter i Rossell Award for Sinnaia
2007 National Prize for Child and Youth Literature of Spanish Letters, by Kafka and the traveling wrist.
2007 Bancaixa Youth Narrative Award, by The Focs of Memory
2011 Barcanova Prize, for L'estrany
2012 Vicent Silvestre Award, by The day Gluck goes up to Terra
2012. Cervantes Chico Award for the whole work and cultural commitment of the Jordi Sierra i Fabra Foundations in Spain and Colombia.
2013. Anaya Award for Child and Youth Literature
2013. Young Readers Award The Galera for Professor Palermo's extraordinary ingenuity
2013. Ibero-American Prize of LIJ for the whole of the work.
2016 Edebé Award for Infant and Youth Literature, by The apprentice of witch and the invisible
2017- Medal of Gold to Merit in Fine Arts (Ministry of Culture and Sports)
2018- Medal of Gold to Merit in Fine Arts For the whole of his work in the field of child and youth literature.
2018 Creu de Sant Jordi, awarded by the Generality of Catalonia.
2020 Lazarillo Award, for Like tears in the rain.
2021 Critical Award for The Wounded Words.
2022 Water Tower Award for a lifetime.

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