Blas Parra

In every genre he writes in, Blas Parra (1948, Valencia) gives his readers daring adventures. The protagonists of his novels (seven to date) always have an ambitious plan to carry out in their lives, which plunges them into a personal adventure in which the search for a vocation or task becomes an epic one. Through the mishaps of this struggle, whether the setting is a modern democratic society or an oppressive dictatorship, conventional logic becomes absurd, myths crumble, and his visionary investigation becomes more coherent, rendering the reader both speechless and laughing. Parra has been President of the Critics' Association, run literary workshops, and been a newspaper and magazine critic. More info on Wikipedia.