Jordi Teixidor (Barcelona 1939-2011) was a prominent playwright, writer, screenwriter, essayist, translator and professor.

Closely connected to the alternative theatre movement of the 1960's and 1970's, he was one of the founders of the theatre company El Camaleó. He made his name with El retaule del flautista (1970), a play which received the Josep M. de Sagarra prize. Running for over one thousand performances, this play is one of the biggest successes of the modern Catalan theatre scene. He received the award Nacional de Teatre Ignasi Iglésias on three occasions for the plays David, rei (1986), Residuals (1989) and Magnus (1994) and the Ciutat de Granollers award twice for Dispara, Flanaghan! (1976) and El drama de les Camèlies o el mal que fa el teatre (1984). He was also awarded the Ciutat de València - Eduard Escalante for La ceba (1987) and the Crítica Serra d'Or award for Residuals (1989). He wrote about twenty screenplays and theatre plays for television, he made versions of Mirandolina (1983) and L'autèntic amic (1988) by Goldoni, El joc de l'amor i de l'atzar (1986) by Marivaux and La parella singular (1989), by Neil Simon. His theatre essay El drama, espectacle i transgressió (1989) obtained the Nacional Xavier Fàbregas award for drama research and essays. He also wrote the detective novels Marro (1988) and A. B. Magnus (1995) and the short stories Cromos. Històries de Barcelona (2000).

He was a member of Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (AELC, Association of Catalan Language Writers).



Page by Josep Miàs for AELC.
Documentation: Biblioteca de Catalunya and MAE-Centre de Documentació and Museu de les Arts Escèniques de l'Institut del Teatre de la Diputació de Barcelona. Header image given by the MAE-Centre de Documentació and Museu de les Arts Escèniques, © Pilar Aymerich (1991).
Translated by Josep Miàs.