
Son of a dressmaker and an erudite office worker, he was born in Barcelona on the 27th August 1968. After spending eight years in a religious school in la Ribera –just beside the Palau de la Música¡–, he attended high school at the extinguished academy ALMI and IES MONTSERRAT. Despite his bad grades, he was accepted into the UAB’s faculty of Journalism, which he quited after four months. That the same year, he started to work as a waiter at LES PUCES DEL BARRI GÒTIC, a bar in the Gothic Quarter where he learned to play the piano. In the following year, returning to the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, he started studying English Literature, which he combined with precarious language teacher jobs. After five years of being a sloth, he stalled at the third year of his studies and quited them again. Having been attacked by travel fever since the age of seventeen, he decided to leave everything behind to travel the world. A bunch of chance encounters led him to live in Croatia and Slovenia during the armed conflicts. Upon returning to Barcelona, he resumed his academic life as a student of German Literature at the Universidad de Barcelona. Once he completed his studies, he attended a master for publishers. His entrance in the editorial world had started a year earlier, as translator of German and English spirituality and alternative therapy books. Before finishing his postgraduate studies, he got hired as editor for a publishing house specializing in self-help books. There, he directed several collections, and he also wrote many different types of work under a pseudonym. After leaving the publishing house, he promised to himself never to work again for a company. He decided to try his luck with a first youth novel. Since then, he basically dedicates himself to writing, and works as literary adviser for different publishing houses and an agency. LOVE IN LOWERCASE (AMOR EN MINUSCULA), already translated into twenty languages, is getting published in 2016 by Penguin USA. This book also has its second part, eight years later, in the WABI-SABI novel, about the beauty of imperfection, which will be published in UK this may. Nowadays he combines literature and journalism, and on a monthly basis publishes articles in EL PAÍS SEMANAL, and in the magazines CUERPOMENTE and MENTESANA. Beyond this, he also works for the radio and offers literary Sherpa services and art therapies. ***************************************************** Hijo de una modista y de un administrativo ilustrado, nació en Barcelona el 27 de agosto de 1968. Tras pasar ocho años en una escuela de curas de la Ribera—al lado del Palau de la Música—, cursó bachillerato entre la desaparecida academia ALMI y el IES MONTSERRAT. Pese a su mal expediente consiguió ingresar en la facultad de Periodismo de la UAB, carrera que abandonó al cabo de cuatro meses. Aquel mismo año entró a trabajar de camarero en LES PUCES DEL BARRI GÒTIC, una taberna de la calle Montsió donde aprendió a tocar el piano. Nuevamente en la Autónoma, el año siguiente inició la carrera de Filología Inglesa, que combinaría con empleos precarios de profesor de idiomas. Tras cinco años de desidia, se estancó en tercer curso de carrera y volvió a abandonar los estudios. Atacado desde los 17 años por la fiebre del viajero, decidió dejarlo todo para vagar por el mundo. Un cúmulo de casualidades le llevaron a vivir en Croacia y Eslovenia durante los conflictos bélicos, peripecia que relataría muchos años después en su libro CAFÈ BALCÀNIC. De regreso a Barcelona, se reenganchó a la vida académica como estudiante de Filología Alemana en la Central. Completada la carrera, hizo un postgrado para editores. Su ingreso en el mundo editorial había empezado ya un año antes, como traductor de alemán e inglés de libros de espiritualidad y terapias alternativas. Inmediatamente después fue contratado como editor por un sello de autoayuda. Allí dirigió diversa
Series
Books

Alexia - When We Were Dead
2010

Ikigai for Teens
Finding Your Reason for Being
2021

Sakura Love
Una historia de amor en Japón
2019

Biblioteca de pe Lună
2019

20 preguntas existenciales ¿…?
cuyas respuestas pueden cambiar tu vida
2022

Pulsaciones
2013

Interrail
2006

The Book of Ichigo Ichie
The Art of Making the Most of Every Moment, the Japanese Way
2018

Los cinco continentes del amor
2018

El quinto mago
2009

LA VIDA ÉS UN FOC SUAU
2007

Love in Lowercase
2006

Alegria
2014

Barcelona Blues
2012

Un cielo tras otro
2012

Wabi-Sabi
2013

Ikigai
The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
2016

Tormenta de estrellas
2012

O Quarto Reich
2007

The Ikigai Journey
A Practical Guide to Finding Happiness and Purpose the Japanese Way
2017

Tú eres la noche
2017

Un haiku per a l Alicia
2012

La nieve negra
2011

Un ceai la capătul lumii
2021

La luz de Alejandría
2012

Ikigai
The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Hygge / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living
2018

El secreto de Picasso
2011

El mejor lugar del mundo es aquí mismo
2008

El cuaderno de Aroha
2013

Los mundos perdidos de Alison Blix
2010

Cuentos para quererte mejor
Ilustraciones de Raquel Díaz Reguera
2018

La profecia 2013
2008

Forest Bathing
The Rejuvenating Practice of Shinrin Yoku
2018

Quem me Dera que Estivesses aqui
2009