Jorge Carrión (
Tarragona
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, Spain – 1976) is a Spanish writer,
cultural critic
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, and director of the Master in Literary Creation at the
Pompeu Fabra University
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. His published books include the
non-fiction
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works ''Bookshops'' (2013) and ''Barcelona: Book of Passageways'' (2017), and the novels ''The Dead'' (2010), ''The Orphans'' (2014), and ''The Tourists'' (2015). He writes in the Spanish edition of ''
The New York Times
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'', and he's also a collaborator in international media as the
''National Geographic magazine'', ''
El País
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'', and ''
La Vanguardia
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''.
Early life
Carrión comes from a family of
Andalusian immigrants in
Catalonia
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. His father was a worker at a telephone company, and they didn't own books.
Career
From 2000 to 2005, Jorge Carrion was a member of the editorial board of the defunct magazine ''Lateral''. He co-directed the literary journal ''Quimera'', and he's been a contributor to the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia for fifteen years. His works have been translated into several languages, included Chinese,
Portuguese, Italian, German, French,
Polish
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and English.
For writing ''Bookshops: A Reader's History,'' Carrión visited over 1,000 bookstores and libraries around the world.
He uses to remark the importance of bookshops in a post-digital era. He points out that people are reconnecting to the material.
However, humanity is transitioning from anthropocentrism to codigocentrism.
Books Translated into English
* ''Against Amazon: and Other Essays''
* ''Bookshops: A Reader's History''
References
External links
CARRION GALVEZ, JORGE(in
Catalan). Profile, Pompeu Fabra University's webpage
Articles by Jorge Carrion in ''The New York Times''(in Spanish)
Spanish writers
Living people
1976 births
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