Manuel de Pedrolo
| Manuel de Pedrolo | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 1, 1918 L'Aranyó, Segarra |
| Died | June 26, 1990 (aged 72) Barcelona, Barcelonès |
| Occupation | writer |
| Nationality | Catalan |
| Notable work | Mecanoscrit del segon origen |
Manuel de Pedrolo i Molina (Catalan pronunciation: [mənuˈɛɫ ðɛ pəˈðɾɔɫɔ]) (1918-1990) was a Catalan author of novels, short stories, poetry and plays. He's mostly known for his sci-fi novel Mecanoscrit del segon origen (Second Origin Typescript).
Manuel de Pedrolo was born in 1918 in L'Aranyó, in the Segarra comarca (county), in Catalonia. After the Spanish civil war he settled down in Barcelona, where he worked at a great number of jobs while writing as a background activity. From 1974, he was able to devote himself to literature, creating works, translating, and doing other minor editorial tasks. He died in Barcelona, in 1990, after suffering a long illness.
Despite the fact that he is considered one of the most ambitious writers in Catalan, having cultivated virtually all literary genres, Manuel de Pedrolo is especially known for his vast production of prose, with more than 72 novels published between 1949 and 1985, many of which were detective novels. Most of them were thoroughly censored under the following terms: "catalanism, political opinions, religion, sexual morality and indecorous language". He also translated into Catalan works by John Dos Passos, William Faulkner and Jean-Paul Sartre. Throughout his life, he had several run-ins with Spanish fascists around censorship issues. He also received many awards and was bestowed with the highest honors in Catalan literature.
Pedrolo's name will remain forever attached to the title of his most popular work, his first attempt at the sci-fi genre, Mecanoscrit del segon origen ("Second origin typescript"). First published in 1974, it became the most broadly disseminated Catalan fiction book in the following decade, with 26 editions and more than 270,000 copies sold in 1986.
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