Albert Forns i Canal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Albert Forns i Canal

Spanish poet, journalist and novelist

Date of Birth: 08-Apr-1982

Place of Birth: Granollers, Catalonia, Spain

Profession: poet, journalist, novelist

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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Albert Forns i Canal (born 8 April 1982 in Granollers) is a Catalan journalist, writer and poet.
Specialised in digital journalism, has worked in cultural institutions like the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona.
Forns stands out for having won the Documenta Prize of narrative with his first novel Albert Serra (the novel, not the film-maker), where the author questions some appearances of the contemporary art mixing fiction, journalism and essay, and where also appear other Catalan artists out like Miquel Barceló or Salvador Dalí, and other writers like Enrique Vila-MatasThe autumn of 2013 Forns received a scholarship from the Institut Ramon Llull to stay at a writers' residence in the State of New York, to prepare his second novel, Jambalaia, rewarded with First Anagrama Prize for Novels in Catalan language.