Jordi Sierra i Fabra: books that we recommend

Without a doubt, one of the most prolific and active Spanish writers is Jordi Sierra i Fabra, who has written more than 500 works since he was very young. In fact, there are books by Jordi Sierra i Fabra for all tastes, and many of them are used in schools or institutes to do text work or comments.

But Who is Jordi Sierra i Fabra? What books have you written? Why is it so well known? We answer all those questions below.

Who is Jordi Sierra i Fabra

Jordi Sierra i Fabra is a consecrated Spanish writer. He was born in 1947 in Barcelona and has written different literary genres, such as novels, poetry, essays or short stories. However, it is in children's and youth literature where he obtained his greatest successes.

Something that not many know about the author is that he is also passionate about pop music, to the point that he was working for magazines and radio stations on that specific topic. Of course, he combined it perfectly with his work as a writer.

Today, Jordi Sierra i Fabra is known not only in Spain, but also in Latin America. And his life has not been "rosy" to say.

The author had many problems as a child because he was a stutterer and that meant that many of his classmates were picking on him. The same thing happened in his family, repressed by his own father. Therefore, he turned all his attention to books and was a compulsive reader.

At the age of eight he suffered a serious accident and from the age of 10 to 12 he began to write his first stories. Almost all of them were characterized by having about a hundred pages, although at 15 he managed to finish one of 500 pages.

He studied to be a rigger because of his father's obligation, however, what he liked was writing and listening to music. At age 21, the Public Order Court signed him because he was writing in a clandestine magazine and that led to the withdrawal of his passport.

After several insistence, got a job as a magazine editor in 1968. However, it did not stop there; He made time to write an article in La Prensa de Barcelona and Nuevo Diario de Madrid. He also participated as director in the weekly Disco Exprés (which lasted 8 years) and his first book was one of music, in 1972. It was about 1962-72 History of Pop Music.

He was so well known in the music industry that some of the best music magazines had him on their team: Top Magazine, Extra, Popular 1, Super Pop ...

Apart from this book (and many others that came), in narrative and essay he premiered with El mundo de las ratas doradas, in 1975; while youth literature would not arrive until 1981 with El cazador.

Jordi Sierra i Fabra: his books

Talking to you next about all the books that Jordi Sierra i Fabra has written would be an almost impossible task. And it is that to his credit he is the author of more than 500 books, with which we could not, even if we wanted, to comment on each one of them due to such an extensive catalog.

However, we can do a selection of what we consider are the best books of the author. Of course, with so many, it is impossible to cover them all or even to make an objective selection, as some will more or less like other books. But in our case, we have chosen the following:

Strawberry fields

Luciana is a young woman from the 90s who is engulfed by the world of drugs, until she falls into a coma. Thus, what the author tries with the work is to help young people to understand what is good and what is not, what is good and what is bad in society.

The murder of the math teacher

Who wouldn't have wanted to kill their math teacher sometime? Although Jordi Sierra i Fabra in his books does not seek to give ideas to do bad things, we can find a funny story.

In it you will meet three students who are bad at math. So the teacher tries to present them with a scenario in which they really want to be interested in solving: dying.

For this reason, he raises his death and orders, through notes and clues, the resolution of the case.

Jordi Sierra i Fabra books: Kafka and the traveling doll

In this case the author used his imagination to create a great tribute to the writer Kafka. And for this he created this story, in which it is told how Kafka had approached a girl who was crying in the park. There, he asked her what had happened to her and the little girl told her that she had lost a doll.

Moved by that girl, He decided to invent the character of "The Doll Postman", a young man who was in the park and who had to deliver a message from his "doll".

Thus, Jordi Sierra i Fabra in his book recreated the scene as well as the "letters" that were written.

Of course, we must bear in mind that it is not something that really happened (except for the incident with the girl, about which her own widow has commented).

My (first) 400 books: literary memoirs of Jordi Sierra i Fabra

The author has compiled in this book the titles of his first books, the reasons that led him to write them, as well as the Anecdotes that you remember from those early years.

Jordi Sierra i Fabra books: The library of empty books

Can you imagine that in a library the letters of the books began to fall? Because, like a wilting plant, books will begin to die? Well that is what Jordi Sierra i Fabra imagines with this book, a town where nobody reads and strange phenomena begin to occur. But little by little they will discover something even more important.

Jordi Sierra i Fabra books: The skin of memory

It is a drama in which he introduces us to a young African protagonist who has lost his mother. However, his father does not stay with him, but decides to sell him to solve his financial problems.

Therefore, in the book you can experience the hardships that this young man suffers from being African and poor. With certain messages that go deep and make you think, what the author seeks is to make the youngest understand (because it is a book of juvenile literature) that there is no need to judge by race, skin color, etc. (and other messages that we keep so as not to keep you awake).