Joan Gil

Joan Gil was born in Barcelona (Catalonia) many years ago. He was mostly interested in Literature and Humanities but enrolled in the local Medical School for practical reasons existing at the time and place. As a medical student he wrote his first novel, which he was unable to publish. He spent the first ten years after graduation doing research and teaching at the University of Berne (Switzerland) where he had the fortune of marrying an Austrian lady, now tragically lost, who became the mother of his children. In the USA he resumed the same line of work at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for seven years and he spent the last 23 years of his professional life as an Attending and Professor of Pathology at the Mount Sinai Hospital and School in Manhattan. He resided in the Upper East Side, where he placed the action of his second novel. Upon retiring, he finally found the time to devote himself to the fulfillment of his literary interests. This author insists in describing the slow origin and development of human conflicts, starting his novels with something that occurred many years earlier. Strong women are one of his preferred topics. He also pays great attention to the social environment of his characters. He will never write medical or autobiographic novels. He was always interested in history: his third novel, the product of years of research, is an account of the complicated life and brief reign of Ramir II the Monk, a XII century King of Aragon in the Pyrenees who refused to make war against the Muslims.

Since 2005 he authors a more or less weekly blog in the Catalan-language newspaper ELPUNT-AVUI.

His personal web (currently under construction) is http://www.joan-gil.com