Jaume Cabré, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jaume Cabré

Catalan writer

Date of Birth: 30-Apr-1947

Place of Birth: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Profession: screenwriter, writer, politician, university teacher, literary critic, librettist, philologist

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Jaume Cabré i Fabré (Catalan pronunciation: ['?awm? k?'ß?e]; born 1947, in Barcelona) is a Catalan philologist, novelist and screenwriter. He graduated in Catalan Philology from the University of Barcelona, is a high-school teacher on leave of absence, professor at the University of Lleida, and a member of the Philological Section of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans. During many years he has combined literary writing with teaching.
He has also worked in television and cinematographic scriptwriting.
He collaborated with Joaquim Maria Puyal as creator and scriptwriter of the first Catalan television series: La Granja (1989–1992), followed by other shows like Estació d'Enllaç (1994–1998), Crims (2000) and the made-for-television movies La dama blanca (1987), Nines russes (2003) and Sara (2003).
He also wrote, together with Jaume Fuster, Vicenç Villatoro and Antoni Verdaguer, the script for Antoni Verdaguer's films La teranyina (1990), based on his novel, and Havanera (1993).