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