Oriol Canosa

Biography

Oriol Canosa (Tarragona, 1975) is a writer of children’s books, and bookseller   in a bookshop specialising in children’s and YA literature and gastronomy. He has published La casa del profesor Kürbis (Baula/Edelvives, 2013) and Apa! Et penses que ens ho creurem? (Cruïlla, 2015), as well as the children’s novels L’illa de les cartes perdudes (Babulinka, 2014) and El secret del Nadal (La Galera). Additionally, he won the Folch i Torres Award in 2016 with L’illa de Paidonèsia (La Galera). Apart from publishing short stories and novels for children, he has also contributed to children’s magazines. When he gets tired of books he goes out walking and has already crossed Europe on foot several times.

Featured author at the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, 2021

 

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Awards
2016
Josep M.Folch i Torres Literary Award
2017
Premi Ala Delta Literary Prize
2019
Cavall Fort Award
Books from this author

Contes d’aventures (Adventure Stories)

Discover a new version of three universal classics about great timeless adventures in one book that includes: Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe, Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne and Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Fiction, Middle Grade
La Galera

El secret del Nadal (The Secret of Christmas)

Getting ready for Christmas, last minute rushed and twists and turns in timely story for six-year-old readers. It’s three days until Christmas and in the town of Bigtower everyone isbusy with the preparations. In this town lives the Bricó family, owners of ahardware store with thousands of objects in it and also the Mayor family,with a husband, a wife, who is the town’s mayor, four children and a butlercalled Travers. The two families are worried because the town’s square Christmas tree doesn’t have any lights on yet. The Mayors are blaming the Bricós and the Bricós are blaming the Mayors. Each family thinks it’sthe other family’s job to light the tree. But they are wrong. Actually, thistask falls to another family, the Furets. They are not a regular family; they are a rat family! This year they haven’t been able to decorate the tree because there’s an owl lurking around. If they go out, it will eat them. But if they don’t go out… the tree will remain in the dark. A sweet adventure that encourages empathy, teamwork, kindness and that breaks stereotypes!
Beginning readers
La Galera

L’illa de Paidonèsia (The Island of Paidonesia)

Nicolàs, a nine-year-old boy, goes sailing with his parents only to find he is bored! They never have any fun and his parents are always arguing. So one day, Nicolás decides to set sail in one of the lifeboats to a tiny island. There, he writes about his adventures. More and more children come to the island, the adults can do nothing about it, and things get worse and worse – or perhaps better and better! A funny story that shows how children act out the adult world and mimic society. A story composed entirely of letters which make you laugh and think at the same time.
Beginning readers
La Galera
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