MB Agencia Literaria

Màrius Serra has published more than 7.000 crossword puzzles, 3.000 articles, numerous books of narrative and several works of wordplay, among them Verbalia (2000) a book that is an heir to and continuation of OuLiPo, and the winner of the Octavi Pellissa Prize, the Serra d’Or Prize and the Lletra d’Or Prize. Serra has won the City of Barcelona Prize for the book of stories La vida normal (Normal Life, Proa, 1998). He is also the author of the novels L’home del sac (Columna, 1990), Mon Oncle (Proa, 1995, FEC Prize), AblanatanalbA (Edicions 62, 1999), Monocle (Mòbil Books, 2003, Empúries, 2008) and has written a non-fiction novel De com s’escriu una novel·la  (Empúries, 2004). He holds a trilingual website dedicated to puns and wordplay (www.verbalia.com) and is a regular contributor to the media. His latest novel, Farsa (Farce) has been awarded the Premi Ramon Llull 2006. After Enviar i Rebre (Columna/Península, 2007), and Quiet (Empúries, 2008; Anagrama, 2008), his latests works are Dicciomàrius (Labutxaca, 2010), Verbàlia 2.0 (Empúries, 2010) and a book for middle-grade readers, L´arca de Babel (Estrella Polar, 2012). This book came out of the cantata Beceroles, which was worked on and interpreted by thirty thousand Catalan school children as part of the Cantània in the 2010-2011 academic year. His latest novel Plans de futur (Proa, February 2013) has won the prestigious Sant Jordi Novel Award 2012.

 http://www.mariusserra.net