by David Castillo · Suma De Lletres Catalana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495980410
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«El Cel De L'infern» is the novel by David Castillo, published by Suma De Lletres Catalana in paperback (320 pages, in Catalan).
Autonomous movement activist Dani Cajal leaves Barcelona's Modelo prison and tries to rebuild his life with Maite, who is sinking into heroin. From that atmosphere of defeat he travels to Nicaragua in the early years of the Sandinista revolution, in a story about individual failure and the end of the collective utopia.
The novel won the Premi Joan Crexells for narrative in 1999 and was originally published that same year; this paperback edition is from 2003.
For readers interested in contemporary Catalan narrative and in the transition, counterculture and the end of utopias.
David Castillo i Buïls is a Spanish poet, writer, and literary critic. He started out as a poet with counterculture and underground publications in the 1970s, although his first published work, a declaration of principles, was the biography of Bob Dylan in 1992. Three years earlier, he had been the anthologist of Ser del segle, which brought together leading voices of the generation of the 1980s. They were followed by a series of poems among them "Game over", which won the Carles Riba Poetry Prize. Then he began a career as a writer with novels like El cel de l'infern and No miris enrere, that were well accepted both by critics and the general public. El cel de l'infern was awarded the Crexells Prize for the best Catalan novel of the year in 1999. No miris enrere won the Premi Sant Jordi de novel·la of 2001. Castillo has received Atlàntida awards for journalism three times, and he has also been awarded the Italian "Tratti Poetry Prize for the best foreign poet" for his anthology of poetry translated into Italian. He has been organizing various poetic cycles. He is a founder of Poetry Week in Barcelona, and has been a director of it since 1997.
