The Catalan writer John Goytisolo He was born in the city of Barcelona in 1931 and he is not the only member of his family who has dedicated himself to letters since his two brothers Jose Agustín and Luis Goytisolo are also renowned writers, which reveals that they have been educated in a deep love of books and words.
Juan Goytisolo is a remarkable novelist who has also excelled in the field of essays, a literary modality that is also very much to his liking. In addition to that, he has collaborated in written press publications being also a renowned journalist in whose articles some of the social injustices that exist today are denounced.
Goytisolo has traveled a lot and has lived in France and Morocco and it is this last place of residence that put him in contact with some of the social problems that he deals with in his journalistic columns and in his fictional works in which the Arab world.
To learn more about Life of this author we can get closer to his work «Forbidden preserve» whose autobiographical character can give us more clues about the vital adventures of this writer whom we can currently read as a contributor to the newspaper El País.
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Source - Oxford University Press