Ferran del Campo i Jordà (Figueres, Alt Empordà, 1959) has a PhD in Biology and is a senior secondary school History teacher.

He has written several monographs on architectural heritage, including Castells medievals. 88 guaites dels castlans de l’Alt Empordà (1989), Castells medievals. 57 Talaies del Gironès i Pla de l’Estany (1991), El Castell de Requesens (1993; 1998; 2017), Història del Priorat de Santa Maria del Roure (2010; 2014), and Els molins de la Muga al terme de Pont de Molins (2013). Moreover, he has published other historical studies, for example Set segles d’una família empordanesa. Els Jordà de Molins (2000), Carles Jordà i Fages. Un home de la terra (2006), and Catalunya Espanya. Preguntes i respostes (2016), this last book being co-authored with Núria Valls and Daniel Cócera.

His first narrative work appeared in 1994. Titled Travessia per l’Àfrica occidental. Crònica d’un viatge en solitari, this book is based on his experiences travelling in West Africa in 1988. He subsequently published the novels A través de l’Himàlaia (2010) and El secreto del Dhaulagiri (2017).

Meanwhile, as part of his research and academic work, he has also published a series of articles, lectures, and studies in biology and history, in collective works and specialist magazines.

Ferran del Campo i Jordà is a member of Associació d’Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (AELC – Association of Catalan Language Writers).

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Documentation and texts: Ferran del Campo i Jordà.
Photograph: author’s personal files.
Web page: Josep Miàs for AELC.
Translated by Julie Wark.