“Cavalls salvatges” and “Formentera Lady” marked the literary career of the author from Berga, who has died at the age of 60.

Catalan literature has tiptoed through the tragedy and curse brought on by heroin in the 80s and 90s. One of the most notable exceptions, almost a cult novel, is “Cavalls salvatges,” by the writer, playwright and translator, Jordi Cussà, who died yesterday, at the age of 60, partly as a result of the damage caused to his health by the excesses he experienced at that time.

Cussà was the author of fifteen works of fiction, characterized by remarkable stylistic ambition and competence, but his work has always been partially marked by, after the narrative of Urbana subterrània (1985) and Actuació de gala (1987).  His explosive novelistic debut, “Cavalls salvatges” (2000), which just last year was published in Spanish, translated by the author himself by Sajalín Publishers.  This is the same label that has just published “Formentera Lady” (2015) a kind of sequel. Also in the making, is a graphic novel adaptation, with his script.

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