Toni Cucarella is the

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of Lluís Antoni Navarro i Cucarella (born 1959), a writer from

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. He began to work at fourteen years old, doing various jobs, the latest as a postman. Amongst his work are the novels: ''Cool: Fresc'' (1987), ''El poeta'' (1988), ''Bogart & Bogart'' (1993) and ''L'última paraula'' (1998), which earned him the Ciutat de Badalona and Critica dels Escriptors Valencians awards. He has also written the collection of stories ''La lluna vista des de la terra a través de tele'' (1990) and ''Llet agra i altres històries com sagrades'' (2002). ''Quina lenta agonia, la dels ametlers perduts'' won the Andromina Award 2003 as part of the 32nd October Awards for Catalan Literature. In juvenile fiction he has written ''Els ponts del diable'' (1995), Samaruc Award for Young Fiction, and ''El lledoner de l'Home Mort'' (1996). He has written articles for ''Levante-El Mercantil Valenciano'', ''El Punt'', ''Caracters'', ''Ciudad de Alcoi'', and Vilaweb. At one point in the elections of 2007, he became a candidate for

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for the Spanish Parliament but has since returned to private life and occasionally published short stories at his

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External links

Toni Cucarella
- Website for the Association of Writers in Catalan.
Author's Blog
1959 births Living people People from Xàtiva Spanish male writers {{Spain-writer-stub