Pablo Herrán de Viu is a Spanish writer. He was born in
Mallorca
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in 1986. He studied filmmaking in
New York
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Film and television
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, where he also founded the
Screen Loud Film Festival. He has since returned to Madrid, where he writes for Vice and Shangaya among others.
An accomplished poet, Herran won the
Els Jocs Florals prize for
Catalan poetry three years in a row, and he was also named Mestre en Gai Saber. His first novel ''Manuel Bergman'' appeared in 2018. A second novel ''Mientras pudimos'' followed in 2020. He has also published short stories, and translated the autobiography of the American photographer
Weegee into Spanish.
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He was named one of the
10 de 30 10 de 30 is a literary project conducted by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), with the goal of identifying and promoting the best young writers in Spain. Ten writers are chosen in each edition of "10 de 30", all ...
group of promising young Spanish writers in 2019.
References
Spanish writers
1986 births
Living people
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