Author Joan-Lluís Lluís visits Marià Villangómez Library to present "Junil a les terres dels bàrbars"

The Formentera Office of Culture is pleased to announce Marià Villangómez Library has programmed a presentation of the book Junil a les terres dels bàrbars, by author Joan-Lluís Lluís, for 7.30pm, Tuesday 4 October.

Lluís's seventh novel is an act of faith in the imagination: a grand and splendorous adventure in which escapades are the language and strangeness the condition. In distinctly fable-esque fashion, our heroine first appears before readers hanging papyrus in her father's bookshop, and it is in the shadow of his contempt that she learns to read. When he dies, Junil flees on foot with three slaves, traversing the frontier and learning the game of life as she goes, where gods and languages vary.

Joan-Lluís Lluís (Perpignan, 1963) is a Catalan novelist, poet, translator, essayist and columnist. Among his multiple literary honours are the Sant Jordi Prize for Jo sóc aquell que va matar Franco and the Òmnium Prize for Novel of the Year for Junil a les terres dels bàrbars. Lluís's works have been translated into Basque, Spanish, French and Czech.

27 September 2022
Communications Office
Consell de Formentera