Jordi de Manuel


Jordi de Manuel i Barrabín teaches Natural Sciences and is also a writer who combines literature with teaching and research. He is a member of the SCCFF.
He has published stories and novels for children and adolescents, among them, El pes de la por, El somni de la nena bruna, which was awarded the City of Eivissa Prize for Children’s Literature in 2000, De tots colors, Els ulls d’Abdeslam, Set de llops, and El beuratge.
He has also written novels and stories for adults, including Tres somnis blaus, which received the 2000 Valldaura Prize, Cels taronges which was awarded the Ciutat de Mollerussa Prize in 2001, Cabells porpres, winner of the 2002 Pere Calders Prize for Catalan Literature, Pantera negra, winner of the 2004 Sant Just Desvern Fiction Prize for Prose under the pseudonym Joan Gols, and Calcs, winner of the 2005 Manuel de Pedrolo Science Fiction Prize. His collection of stories entitled Disseccions, was awarded the Odissea Readers’ Prize, the only literary award with a jury consisting of one hundred readers.
He has also published a number of research articles on biology, along with numerous papers on innovation and teaching in the Natural Sciences. He has participated in teams that have been awarded, for their contributions to Science teaching, the 1992 Barcanova Prize for Innovation in Teaching, the 1996 Enciclopèdia Catalana Prize for Research and Innovation in Teaching and the 1998 Eudald Maideu Prize. He is a member of AELC.
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Published works

Tales and novels for to children and teenagers

El somni de la nena bruna. Premi Ciutat d'Eivissa, Res Publica, 2000De tots colors. Alfaguara, 2001Set de llops. La Galera, 2003El pes de la por. Alfaguara, 1998Un niu de formigues. Animallibres, 2008El beuratge. Alfaguara, 2003Els ulls d'Abdelslam. La Galera, 2001
  • Un niu de formigues. Animallibres, 2008
  • El món fosc. Talps. Santillana/Jollibre, 2018

Novels and short narrative for adults

Tres somnis blaus. Columna; premi Valldaura, 2000Cels taronges. Columna; premi Ciutat de Mollerussa, 2001Disseccions. Proa; premi El lector de L'Odissea, 2001Cabells propres. Columna; premi Pere Calders de Literatura Catalana, 2002L'olor de la pluja. La Magrana, 2006Calcs. Mataró. Ajuntament de Mataró, 2005El cant de les dunes. Pagès editors, 2006El raptor de gnoms. La Magrana, 2007Mans lliures. Edicions 62, 2009Orsai, Editorial Meteora, 2012
  • La mort del corredor de fons. Edicions 62, 2012.
  • La decisió de Manperel. Columna, 2013. Premi Pin i Soler de narrativa, 2013.
  • Científics lletraferits, Ed. Mètode, 2013.
  • 100 situacions extraordinàries a l'aula. Ed. Cossetània, 2014.
  • Foc verd. Ed. Alrevés. 2016
  • Mans negres. Pagès Editors. 2017

Short stories in anthologies

L'home que estripava llibres, a Un cop de Sort. Proa, 2003Dos anys de vacances, Al recull "Els fills del capità Verne". Lleida, Pagès editors, 2005El laberint, a Salou 6 pre-textos III. Barcelona, Meteora, 2007Segrest exprés, en Crims.cat, Alrevés, 2010.Nit del segon origen, en Tombes i lletres, Ed. Sidilla, 2010.Crònica breu d'un ésser estàtic, en Científics lletraferits, Ed. Mètode, 2013.
  • Els hostes, en Contes de terror, Lleida. Apostroph, 2017.
  • La trampa, en Viatge a la perifèria criminal, Barcelona, Alrevés, 2017