Juan José Plans

Juan José Plans Martínez (1943, Gijón, Asturias, Spain - February 24, 2014) was a Spanish writer, journalist, and radio and television announcer. He specialized as a writer in fantasy, horror, and science fiction, and published several collections of short stories and several radio and TV adaptations of classics in these genres. He was the author of nearly forty books and is on over thirty national and international anthologies, which have been translated into Portuguese, Polish, French, Russian and English.[1]

His novel El juego de los niños (roughly meaning Children's Game) has been adapted for film twice: first as Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's Who Can Kill a Child? and later as Come Out and Play.

Of the asociación jovellanista, he has written biographies of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos and Alejandro Casona.

He was the father of painter Edgar Plans (b. 1977, in Madrid) who is author of the 2009 Feria Internacional de Muestras de Asturias (Asturias International Trade Fair) poster.

Career

Plans started his career in the press, in collaboration with Gijón's El Comercio and the Oviedo provincial press. In 1965, he moved to Madrid. There he began working at Spanish National Radio, as editor of La Estafeta Literaria and as editorial adviser of El Basilisco and Nickel Odeón. He led the Centro Territorial de TVE (Spanish Television Regional Headquarters) in Asturias, from 1984 to 1988, and also the Gijón International Film Festival.

He was the Spain director of the monthly magazine Lui.

He collaborated in the cultural supplement of La Nueva España, an Oviedo periodical, and picked up some of the articles from Puzzle 90 and Puzzle 91, 1990 through 1991. He presented, between 1994 and 2003, the radio shows Sobrenatural and Historias, on Spanish National Radio.

He has been awarded the National Theater Prize. He received the 1972 Premio Nacional de Guion Radiofónico (National Radio Broadcasting Script Prize) for Ventana al futuro and the Ondas Awards of 1982 for España y los españoles, both programs of Spanish National Radio. He obtained the Premio de las Letras de Asturias (Asturias Letters Prize) in 2010.[2]

Works

Anthologies

References

  1. ↑ "Fallece el escritor gijonés Juan José Plans a los 70 años" (in Spanish). elcomercio.es. February 25, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Juan José Plans galardonado con el VI Premio de las Letras Asturianas" [Juan José Plans awarded the 6th Asturian Letters Prize] (in Spanish). La Página Eciciones. 14 October 2011. Retrieved 2013-09-12.

See also

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