Jordi de Manuel i Barrabín (Barcelona, 1962) teaches Natural Sciences and is also a writer who combines literature with teaching and research. He is a member of the SCCFF (Catalan Society of Fantasy and Science Fiction).

He has published stories and novels for children and adolescents, among them, El pes de la por (1998, with Sílvia Vega), El somni de la nena bruna, which was awarded the City of Eivissa Prize for Children’s Literature in 2000, Els ulls d’Abdeslam (2001), El beuratge (2003), El món fosc. Talps (2018) and La ciutat del Cel. Porcs (2024).

He has also written novels and stories for adults, including Tres somnis blaus, which received the 2000 Valldaura Prize; Cels taronges, awarded the Ciutat de Mollerussa Prize in 2001; Cabells porpres, winner of the 2002 Pere Calders Prize for Catalan Literature; Pantera negra, winner of the 2004 Sant Just Desvern Fiction Prize for Prose under the pseudonym Joan Gols; Calcs, winner of the 2005 Manuel de Pedrolo Science Fiction Prize; Mans lliures (2009), Foc verd (2016), La barrera (2019) or Àcars (2024). His collection of stories entitled Disseccions (2001), was awarded the Odissea Readers’ Prize, the only literary award with a jury consisting of one hundred readers.

He has also published a number of research articles on biology, along with numerous papers on innovation and teaching in the Natural Sciences. He has participated in teams that have been awarded, for their contributions to Science teaching, the 1992 Barcanova Prize for Innovation in Teaching, the 1996 Enciclopèdia Catalana Prize for Research and Innovation in Teaching and the 1998 Eudald Maideu Prize. 

He is a member of AELC (Association of Catalan Language Writers).

Web page: Carme Ros for AELC. 
Documentation and Photograph: Author's personal files. 
Translation: Julie Wark.