Albert Garcia Pascual was born in the spring of ’67 in the twentieth century, in Castelló de la Plana, the town in which he has spent his whole life except for the years he spent studying in Valencia. This marked him so deeply that he still returns couple of times a week for work-related reasons, to the great delight of the highway concessionaire. He makes the most of the hours he spends at the wheel meditating on the human condition and plots of novels and so forth, so we must grateful to the asphalt for that. Despite his height, he is a small businessman, insatiable castigator of computers, and internet philosopher and thinker. With Rubén Montañés as co-author, he published Una Magdalena moguda (Frenetic Festival of Magdalena), a thriller with the merry backdrop of the annual festivities of the capital of the la Plana region. In 2001, he was awarded the Vila d'Almassora Prize for his La revolta ignorada (The Unheeded Revolt), a historically-based novel. Continuing along his experimental lines, in 2002 he published Aquell matí era perfecte (That Morning Was Perfect), a science-fiction novel in which humour founded on irony, wordplay, ambiguous and equivocal situations seeks to make the reader smile while also to provoke reflection on the great truths of humanity. He declares that he find himself very interesting at present in attacking other literary genres. Since he is still spending many hours in his car, it is likely that he will surprise us again, and soon.

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



Web page: Carme Ros for AELC.
Documentation and Photograph: Personal files of the author.
Translation: Julie Wark.