Majorcan journalist and writer Anthony Serra He passed away this Saturday at the age of 87. Brother of Pere A. Serra, founder and chairman of Grup Serra, Antoni Serra (Sóller, 1936) studied medicine in Barcelona, doing studies that he eventually gave up dedicating himself to literature. As a journalist, worked last minute and collaborated with other newspapers, magazines and weekly newspapers, including the Diario de Mallorca.
A staunch advocate of Catalan, he was one of the founders of the Association of Writers of the Catalan Language (AELC), of which he was vice-president in 1977, and technical secretary of the Second Congrés de Cultura Catalana in the Balearic Islands. . He also ran the Tous de Palma bookstore for five years and was named Author of the Month in the Principality of Catalonia in 1995.
As a writer published his first book two fairy talesin 1959. He published his first work in Catalan, Gent del carrer, in 1971. He is best known for creating the detective Celso Mosqueiro, one of the most iconic characters of the Catalan detective novel genre. He also developed short novels and in recent years has published his author diary under the generic title Diari d’ombres, paisatges i Figures.
Along with Maria-Antònia Oliver and Jaume Fuster, she was part of the writers’ collective Ofèlia Dracs in 1999. Catalan Choosing to dive into sex, erotica, black or horror literature in the 80s.
Antoni Serra considered himself a Solleric by birth and a Marratxiner by adoption. In an interview with this newspaper in 2019, he admitted that he is perfectly happy in Marratxí.. On the other hand, Palma said, “It has nothing to do with the neighborhood I knew in the last Rapinya neighborhood and lived for a while. Today this Palma seems like a disaster to me, no one lives in it.” He admitted that his ideal city was Lisbon, “where I visit the most and where my detective Celso Mosqueiro comes from.”
In the same interview, regarding her role as a writer, she said, “My path is total freedom, I don’t want them to control me. And if the reader is interested, okay, if they don’t, fuck him.” He also said, “I want to go to hell when I die because the women I want are waiting for me there,” and to the possibility of dying. also emphasized.
President of EFTA, Sebastià Portell was one of the first people to mourn his death on social networks..