Ramon Surroca (Barcelona, 1966) has degrees in Philosophy and Science from the University of Barcelona and has been working as a secondary school teacher since 1991.

At the age of forty, following a trip to Cuba, he published his first novel, Lenta llum de l'Havana (Slow Light of Havana, 2006). The next year, he published his second novel, Memòria de sal (Memory of Salt, 2007), which is based on a university cruise around the Mediterranean which was organised at the time of the Spanish Republic. L'aparador desert (The Empty Display Case, 2011) is his third novel and is concerned with the dilemmas of contemporary art, the model of the city opted for by Barcelona, and the discovery of literature as a refuge when city and art lose substance. He has also written a large novel La sang ferida (Wounded Blood), published in 2014.

He is a member of the Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (AELC – Association of Catalan Language Writers).

Contact.



Web page: Josep Miàs for AELC.
Documentation: Ramon Surroca.
Photographs: Author’s personal files.
Translation: Julie Wark.