Jorge Carrión
Jorge Carrión is a Spanish writer, cultural critic, and director of the Master in Literary Creation at the Pompeu Fabra University. His published books include the non-fiction works Bookshops and Barcelona: Book of Passageways, and the novels The Dead, The Orphans, and The Tourists. He writes in the Spanish edition of The New York Times, and he's also a collaborator in international media as the National Geographic magazine, El País, and La Vanguardia.
Early life
Carrión comes from a family of Andalusian immigrants in Catalonia. His father was a worker at a telephone company, and they didn't own books.Career
From 2000 to 2005, Jorge Carrion was a member of the editorial board of the defunct magazine Lateral. He co-directed the literary journal Quimera, and he's been a contributor to the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia for fifteen years. His works have been translated into several languages, included Chinese, Portuguese, Italian, German, French, Polish and English.For writing Bookshops: A Reader's History, Carrión visited over 1,000 bookstores and libraries around the world. He uses to remark the importance of bookshops in a post-digital era. He points out that people are reconnecting to the material. However, humanity is transitioning from anthropocentrism to codigocentrism.
Books Translated into English
Against Amazon: and Other Essays- ''Bookshops: A Reader's History''