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Abert Forns (Granollers, 8 April, 1982) is a Catalan journalist, writer and poet. Specialising in digital journalism, he has worked at cultural institutes such as the CCCB. He stands out for having won the Documenta prize for Fiction with his first novel 'Albert Serra (la novela no el cineasta)', in which the author reflects on several aspects of contemporary art mixing fiction, journalism and essay, and where other notable artists also appear, such as Barceló or Dalí, and other writers such as Enrique Vila-Matas. In autumn2013 he received a grant from the Ramon Llull Institute to spend time at a writers' residency in in the north of New York state (part of the OMI centre for international art) to draft his second novel, which will be about the tangled maze of the literary world.
Albert Serra (the novela not the cineaste)