Kiko Amat

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Kiko Amat
Born1971 (age 5051)
OccupationWriter, DJ
Awards Mandarache Award  [ es ] (2010)

Kiko Amat (born 1971) is a Spanish journalist and novelist who also works as a DJ.

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Biography

Kiko Amat left school at 17 and lived in London for five years. He writes periodically on his website Bendito Atraso and, with his brother Uri Amat, edits the fanzine La Escuela Moderna, in addition to DJing with the collective Hungry Beat. He writes critical articles for various media outlets, such as the newspaper La Vanguardia and its supplement Cultura/S, and the magazines GO (until 2005) and Rockdelux .

Literary career

In 2003 he published his first novel with Anagrama, El día que me vaya no se lo diré a nadie, which he defined as "a love story, but somewhat atypical." [1] It narrates the encounters and disagreements of a young overimaginative man with Octavia, the girl who gives voice to the underground. In general it was well received by critics. [2] Among his main influences, the author cited Anglo-Saxon underground authors such as Colin MacInnes and Richard Brautigan. Another of Amat's most important influences is pop music. Referring to his first novel, he said: "I wanted each episode to have the immediacy of some of those three-minute punk rock songs that have had the most impact on me." [1]

In 2007, Kiko Amat's second novel was released, Cosas que hacen BUM, which tells of the fascination of Pànic Orfila with an armed group of anarchist dandies of the Gràcia district (Los Vorticistas) and their explosive plans. Early 2009 saw the publication of his third novel, Rompepistas, about the adolescence of a group of skins and punks in a town on the outskirts of Barcelona in 1987. According to the author's statements, the three books form a trilogy on adolescence and youth. [3]

The critics have classified Kiko Amat as a "pop novelist", [4] linking his literary approach with those of authors such as Javier Calvo, Juan Francisco Ferré, Julián Rodríguez, and Agustín Fernández Mallo. [4] The author, for his part, denies this, and in an interview mentioned Francisco Casavella and Carlos Herrero as similar authors. [5] He won the 2010 Mandarache Award  [ es ] for Rompepistas. [6]

In 2012 he published the novel Eres el mejor, Cienfuegos, a tragicomic portrait of the crisis of the 1940s  [ es ] with the 15-M as a backdrop.

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References

  1. 1 2 Frouchtmann, Juan S. (7 November 2003). "Kiko Amat: Mis discos y yo" [Kiko Amat: My Records and Me]. El Mundo La Luna (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  2. Santos, Care (23 October 2003). "El día que me vaya no se lo diré a nadie". El Cultural (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  3. Hevia, Elena (25 January 2009). "Kiko Amat: 'Los amigos te salvan en la adolescencia'" [Kiko Amat: 'Friends Save You in Adolescence']. El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  4. 1 2 Hevia, Elena (10 April 2007). "Jóvenes escritores españoles se zambullen en la cultura pop" [Young Spanish Writers Plunge Into Pop Culture]. El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  5. Bravo, Mario (23 August 2007). "Entrevista a Kiko Amat: Literatura desde las aceras" [Interview with Kiko Amat: Literature from the Sidewalks]. Diagonal (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 December 2018 via Rebelión.
  6. "Edición 2010". Mandarache Award. Archived from the original on 21 March 2018. Retrieved 5 December 2018.