Oriol Pi de Cabanyes (Vilanova i la Geltrú, Garraf, 1950). Novelist and essayist. At a very young age, seventeen, he won the first call for "Crida als escriptors joves" from Serra d'Or and at twenty-three he already obtained the Prudenci Bertrana prize for his first novel He offered flowers to the rebels who failed (1973). For this work, he also received the Premi Crítica Serra d'Or for novel in 1974. The novel is important as a portrait of the youth of the time. He combines his work as a writer with teaching and as a novelist he is also the author of the books Even the ants, Dylan, will one day cry from loneliness (finalist for the Josep Pla Prize in 1975) and Shreds of a flag (1977; finalist for the Sant Jordi prize in 1976). In the field of short narrative, he publishes the work Novenari d'ànimes (1978). As an essayist, Oriol Pi de Cabanyes publishes, jointly with Guillem-Jordi Graells, The literary generation of the 70s (1971) and as a specialist in the 19th century, he is the author of the works The Renaixença (1978), Notes on the history of the Renaixença (1984) and Rethink Catalonia (1989), with which he obtained the Josep Vallverdú Essay Prize in 1988. From his extensive production, the diary also stands out.Book of Hours (1975-1978) (1980) and the travel book For the beautiful frozen north (Sant Joan Award, 1995). Regular contributor to media such as Serra d'Or, Today or La Vanguardia, Oriol Pi de Cabanyes he has been director of the Víctor Balaguer Museum in Vilanova i la Geltrú and of the Institution of Catalan Letters, as well as of the Cabinet of the Minister of Culture and of the Catalan Consortium for the Exterior Promotion of Culture. He was a member of the board of the Association of Writers in Catalan Language between 1978 and 1980. Source: AELC
