Juan Bonilla (writer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Juan Bonilla (writer)

Spanish writer

Date of Birth: 11-Aug-1966

Place of Birth: Jerez de la Frontera, Andalusia, Spain

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Juan Bonilla (born 1966) is a Spanish writer.
He was born in Jerez de la Frontera.
He has published several collections of short stories, including Tanta gente sola (Seix Barral, 2009), and Una manada de ñus(Pre-Textos, 2013).
As a novelist, his notable works include Nadie conoce a nadie (Ediciones B, 1996), which was turned into a successful film by Mateo Gil, and Los príncipes nubios (Seix Barral, 2003), which won the Premio Biblioteca Breve in 2003.
Los príncipes nubios has also been translated into several languages; the French version won the Prix littéraire des Jeunes européens in 2009.
Bonilla has also published works of non-fiction, notably a biography of the writer Terenci Moix, titled La vida es un sueño pop.
Vida y obra de Terenci Moix (RBA, 2012).
This book won the Premio Gaziel de Biografías y Memorias in 2011.
Bonilla's latest novel Prohibido entrar sin pantalones (Seix Barral, 2013) treats the Russian avant-garde poet Vladimir Mayakovsky as its subject.
The novel has received extravagant critical praise and won the I Premio Bienal de Novela Vargas Llosa to the best novel published in Spanish in 2012/2013. He has compiled his poems in the volume Hecho en falta (Visor, 2014).
The collection 'Six stories' is available in English. Juan Bonilla: Six stories, Ankor Wat Words Collection, Dark Mirror Editions, 2004 (translated from Spanish by Rupert Glasgow).