ORIOL CANOSA

Oriol Canosa is a children's author and bookseller. He has published the collections of short stories La Casa del profesor Kübris (Professor Kübris's House; Edelvives, 2013) and Apa! Et penses que no ens ho creurem? (Goodness Gracious. Can You Believe It?; Cruilla, 2015). He has also published the children's novel La isla perdida de las cartas perdidas (The Lost Island of Lost Letters; Babulinka, 2014) and written for children's magazines. In other fields, he is the author of a pocket guide for the concerned (Intermón, 2009) on social and environmental issues, and for years wrote a weekly post for the blog Donantdades on the same topics. In June 2014 he and his partners Maite Sánchez and Maite Cusó opened a bookstore called Pebre Negre in Calle Clt, 41, Barcelona, specialising in child and young adult literature and gastronomy. When he tires of books, he goes walking. He has already crossed Europe on foot twice.