2002
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Islandia. El escritor y periodista Xavier Moret viaja, en el verano de 2001 y en el invierno de 2002, a la recóndita Islandia con el firme propósito de encerrarse en la casa del escritor Gunnar Gunnarsson para terminar una novela, y con la esperanza de contemplar la aurora boreal. Asentado en Reikiavik y acompañado por un amigo islandés, Moret hace varias incursiones por la isla con el fin de conocer a fondo los lugares más representativos y la particularidad de su naturaleza, al tiempo que se adentra en los pormenores de la sociedad islandesa. La isla secreta es el resultado de ese recorrido.
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Author
Xavier Moret
Author · 4 books
Xavier Moret (b. 1952), a Barcelona native, studied English philology and journalism at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, but has learned much more from traveling. He has been lucky enough to earn his living combining three of the things he enjoys most: reading, writing, and traveling. In his twenties, he translated Superman and Batman. In 1982, he published his first novel, L'americà que estimava Moby Dick (The American who loved Moby Dick). He won the Grandes Viajeros (Great Travelers) Award for his book Islandia, la isla secreta (Iceland, the secret island) in 2002. In 2004, he received the 23 Abril Award for his novel Doctor Pearson, and the following year won the Sent Soví Award for gastronomic literature for El Bulli desde dentro (Inside El Bulli). Moret is a journalist and travel writer for the Spanish newspapers El País and El Periódico.
