Teresa Pintó
Carmen Balcells Literary Agency
t.pinto@agenciabalcells.com
www.agenciabalcells.com
Albert Sánchez Piñol (Barcelona, 1965) is an anthropologist, Africanist and writer. He is a member of the African Study Center and the author of several essays, short story books and novels. His breakthrough debut novel Cold Skin brought him great critical and public recognition. It received the Ojo Crítico award and the Catalan Booksellers’ prize and was a finalist of the Llibreter prize. It has been translated into more than thirty-seven languages (with more than 800,000 copies sold). With the novel Pandora in the Congo, he received the Serra d’Or Critics award in 2006 and the Catalan version of Victus, translated by Xavier Pàmies, won the third L’Illa dels Llibres readers award.
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