Juan Goytisolo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Juan Goytisolo

Spanish writer

Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1931

Place of Birth: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Date of Death: 04-Jun-2017

Profession: screenwriter, writer, poet, journalist, literary editor, novelist, essayist

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Juan Goytisolo Gay (5 January 1931 – 4 June 2017) was a Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist.
He lived in Marrakech from 1997 until his death in 2017. He was considered Spain's greatest living writer at the beginning of the 21st century, yet he had lived abroad since the 1950s. On 24 November 2014 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world.