Julià Guillamon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Julià Guillamon

Spanish journalist

Date of Birth: 17-Nov-1962

Place of Birth: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Profession: writer, author, journalist, literary critic

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Julià Guillamon is a Catalan writer and literary critic.
He was born in Barcelona in 1962. Guillamon studied Catalan philology at the University of Barcelona.
Since 1994, he has been publishing weekly reviews in the newspaper La Vanguardia.
His essays have dealt with the image of Barcelona in literature from the period between the 1970s and the 1992 Summer Olympic Games.
He has been the curator of several literary exhibitions.
One of his projects, The literature of exile, was staged in Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Mexico City and Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
He won the 2002 Serra d'Or Critics' Award for essays and the 2006 Octavi Pellissa Award.