Individual residencies / Olot
JAVIER LÓPEZ ALÓS
From Monday, 21 November 2022 to Saturday, 26 November 2022
Bio
He has recently published El intelectual plebeyo. Vocación y resistencia del pensar alegre (2021) and Crítica de la razón precaria. La vida intel·lectual ante la obligación de lo extraordinario (2019), which obtained the Catarata's Book Award and will be come out in French in 2023. Also, as a researcher, he especially contributed to the area of the history of political ideas with numerous publications, before returning to Dénia (Alicante) to focus on his writing. Currently, in addition to his non-fiction and esssayist side, he is working on other genres and literary projects, like his first short stories collection, Ratones de biblioteca.
Project
During the stay at Faberllull Olot, he plans to develop the last three stories of the book, as well as to work on the edition of the previous ones in order to complete the final version of the manuscript and submitt it to the publishing house.