Gabriel Janer Manila (born November 1, 1940, in Algaida, Mallorca, Spain) is a Spanish

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, translator and writer. He is well-known across Spain for being a prolific author who has worked in almost every genre. His work has been translated into several languages, including German, English, Spanish, Basque and Galician. Manila combines his literary career with teaching at the University of the Balearic Islands.

Awards

He was the winner of the 2007 Premi

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, the most prestigious prize in

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, for his novel Tigers.. In 1998 he was awarded the Cross of Saint George of the Generalitat (Parliament) of Catalonia.

Personal life

He is the father of

Maria de la Pau Janer Maria de la Pau Janer (; born 13 January 1966 in Majorca) is a writer from Spain who works in Spanish and Catalan language, Catalan. She is a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela and the Ramon Llull Novel Award. She got her Doctor of Philos ...

, also a writer.

Works

Short fiction

* 1972 ''El cementiri de les roses'' (The Cemetery of Roses) * 1988 ''La finestra'' (The Window) * 1991 ''Contes per als qui dormen amb un ull obert'' (Stories for those who Sleep with One Eye Open) * 2002 ''Vola, vola Josh!'' (Fly, fly Josh!) * 2004 ''L'illa i una nit'' (The Island and a Night)

Novels

* 1969 ''L'abisme'' (The Abyss) * 1970 ''El silenci'' (The Silence) * 1971 ''Han plogut panteres'' * 1972 ''La capitulació'' (The Capitulation) * 1972 ''Els alicorns'' * 1973 ''L'agonia dels salzes'' (The Agony of Willows) * 1976 ''El rei Gaspar'' (King Gaspar) * 1977 ''Tango'' * 1977 ''La cerimònia'' (The Ceremony) * 1979 ''Com si els dits m'haguessin tornat cuques de llum'' * 1983 ''Diumenge, després de lluna plena'' (Sunday, After the Full Moon) * 1983 ''La Serpentina'' * 1984 ''El corsari de l'illa dels conills'' * 1984 ''Angeli musicanti'' * 1985 ''Els rius de Babilònia'' (The Rivers of Babylon) * 1987 ''La dama de les boires'' (The Lady of the Fog) * 1987 ''Els peixos no es pentinen'' * 1987 ''Violeta, el somriure innocent de la pluja'' (Violet, the Innocent Smile of the Rain) * 1987 ''Tot quant veus és el mar'' (All You See is the Sea) * 1988 ''Diu que n'era un rei'' * 1988 ''Els rius dormen als núvols'' (Rivers Sleep in the Clouds) * 1989 ''El Palau de vidre'' (The Glass Palace) * 1990 ''Arlequí, el titella que tenia els cabells blaus'' (Harlequin, the Puppet who had Blue Hair) * 1990 ''La perla verda'' (The Green Pearl) * 1991 ''Els rius de la lluna'' (The Rivers of the Moon) * 1992 ''Paradís d'orquídies'' (Orchid Paradise) * 1993 ''Han cremat el mar'' (Burned the Sea) * 1993 ''Lluna creixent sobre el Tàmesi'' (Moon Rising over the Thames) * 1995 ''Viatge a l'interior del fred'' (Journey to the Center of Cold) * 1995 ''El terror de la nit'' (Terror of the Night) * 1996 ''Aquella dona que vingué de Mart'' (That woman who came from Mars) * 1996 ''La vida, tan obscura'' (Life, So Dark) * 1997 ''Els jardins incendiats'' (The Gardens Burned) * 1999 ''La invenció de la primavera'' (The Invention of Spring) * 2000 ''Estàtues sobre el mar'' (Statues on the Sea) * 2000 ''Samba per a un "menino da rua"'' * 2002 ''George. El perfum dels cedres'' (George. The Scent of Cedar) * 2003 ''Daniel i les bruixes salvatges'' (Daniel and the Wild Witches) * 2005 ''Èxtasi'' (Ecstasy) * 2007 ''Tigres'' (Tigers)

Essays and Other Prose Works

* 1975 ''Petita memòria d'un mestre del meu temps'' (Little Memorial of a Master of My Time) * 1975 ''Implicació social i humana del teatre'' (The Social and Human Engagement of the Theater) * 1979 ''Aucells esquius'' * 1979 ''Sexe i cultura a Mallorca: el cançoner'' (Sex and Culture in Mallorca: The Song) * 1980 ''Història de l'illa de Mallorca'' (History of the Island of Mallorca) * 1980 ''La ciutat de Mallorca: al recer d'una badia mediterrània'' (The City of Mallorca: in Search of a Mediterranean Bay) * 1982 ''Sexe i cultura a Mallorca: la narrativa oral i el teatre'' (Sex and Culture in Mallorca: The Narrative and Theater) * 1982 ''Cultura popular i ecologia del llenguatge'' (Popular Culture and Ecology of Language) * 1985 ''Pregoner de quimeres'' (The Crier of Chimeras) * 1986 ''Pedagogia de la imaginació poètica'' (Pedagogy of the Poetic Imagination) * 1990 ''Satan estima Berlín'' (Satan loves Berlin) * 1991 ''L'educació de l'home que riu'' * 1995 ''Literatura infantil i experiència cognitiva'' (Children’s Literature and Learning Experience) * 1995 ''Les cançons eròtiques del camp de Mallorca'' (The Erotic Songs of the Countryside of Mallorca) * 1996 ''Com una rondalla: els treballs i la vida de Mossèn Alcover'' (The Life and Work of Mossèn Alcover) * 1999 ''L'infant selvàtic de Sierra Morena'' (The Wild Child of Sierra Morena) * 1999 ''Les festes llunyanes'' * 2005 ''Costa i Llobera: territoris de l'ànima'' (Costa and Llobera: Territories of the Soul)

Plays

* 1981 ''Les aventures d'en Pere Pistoles'' (The Adventures of Peter Pistols) * 1981 ''La princesa embruixada'' (The Haunted Princess)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Janer Manila, Gabriel 1940 births Living people Spanish male writers Academic staff of the University of the Balearic Islands