Moderator - Marius CAROL
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01/12/2010
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Journalist and Author (Spain)
Marius Carol was born in Barcelona in 1953. He has an MA in Journalism and in Humanities.
He has worked on a number of editorial teams and held executive positions on the newspapers El Periódico, El País and La Vanguardia, also editing the latter’s weekend supplement Magazine. He is currently Director of Communications with the Godó Group and a columnist with La Vanguardia. A regular guest on the radio stations RAC 1, Punto Radio and La Ser, he also appears on the regional television programmes El Club, broadcast by TV3, and TVE’s 59 segons. He is a member of the editorial board of the magazine Historia y Vida and a director of the newspaper Avui.
He has also worked as a television presenter, fronting Classificació ACR (a programme on the archives of the Franco regime), the TV3 specials Nexes, 11 de Setembre and Sant Jordi, as well as Siete días 2 on TV2, and La setmana on 8TV. Defending the cause of King Jaime I, he also won the TV3 programme El favorit, presented by Toni Soler.
He has written countless books including El último Dalí (published by El País), Dalí: el final oculto de un exhibicionista (Plaza & Janés), Tipos de interés, (Laia); Catalanes o polacos (Beta); A la sombra del Rey (Planeta); Condición de príncipe (Planeta) and Contra periodistas (Edhasa). In conjunction with the journalist Josep Playa he wrote L'enigma Dalí (Plaza & Janés), which won the Así Fue Award in 2004. In 2007 he wrote El club de los cincuenta, published by La Esfera de los Libros.
As a novelist he has written La conjura contra el gurmet (Planeta) and Les seduccions de Júlia, the winner of the 2002 Ramon Llull Award, presented by the publishing house Planeta. El segrest del rei (Planeta), which relates the attempted theft of Jaime I’s mortal remains during the Franco years, has now been published in five editions and spent six months on the list of best-selling books in Catalonia. His most recent novel, Una vetllada a l’Excelsior (Planeta), depicts the city of Barcelona at the time of the First World War.
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