Juan Marsé

Juan Marsé Carbó (8 January 1933 – 18 July 2020) was a Spanish novelist, journalist and screenwriter. In 2008 he was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, "the Spanish-language equivalent" to the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in Barcelona.
In 1974, he started a column in the magazine "Por Favor". He wrote two novels about post-war Barcelona, "Un día volveré" ("One Day I'll Come Back") and "Ronda del Guinardó", followed by the collection of short stories, "Teniente Bravo".
Marsé died at a hospital in Barcelona on 18 July 2020 from heart failure, aged 87.