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Ana M. Briongos

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Ana M. Briongos
Born29 December 1946
Barcelona, Spain
Died25 June 2024 (aged 77)
OccupationWriter
Known forAna María Briongos, Ana Briongos
Notable workWinter in Kandahar: Life in Afghanistan Before the Taliban[1]
AwardsGourmand Award 2009, Annual Latino Book Award 2009
WebsiteHome page, blog

Ana M. Briongos (29 December 1946 – 25 June 2024), also known as Ana Briongos or Ana María Briongos, was a Spanish lecturer and writer.

Biography

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She finished a five-year degree in physics at the University of Barcelona. Later she studied Persian at the University of Tehran during the time of the Shah, and worked in Iran and Afghanistan.

She came back to Spain and for ten years she was the director of Interway, an Organisation for International Student Exchange. After the Iranian Revolution she became acquainted with post-revolutionary Iran from Isfahan, where she worked in a carpet store in the city's bazaar while she was writing her third book. She then went to India and lived in Calcutta for several years.

Briongos felt the need to tell what she had seen, lived, and felt in these countries. As a result, she wrote six books in Spanish and Catalan, which have been translated into several languages, all of them explaining daily life and the experiences of everyday people, with the idea that information should not remain only in the hands of television cameras, journalists, and anthropologists.

She gave lectures and conferences at universities and social organisations.

Her book Winter in Kandahar: Life in Afghanistan Before the Taliban won the 2009 Annual Latino Book Award for best travel book.[2] Another of her books, Black on black: Iran revisited, was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award in 2001, and was one of the final six contenders.[3] [4]

In 2009, she won the Gourmand Award 2009 in two categories[5][6] for the book Iran, receptes i costums gastronómics, written in Catalan, with Quico Alsina as co-author.

From 2013 to 2015 she was a member of the board of Sociedad Geográfica Española.[7]

Tony Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely Planet, likes to cite, or reference, a paragraph from Black on Black, Iran revisited by Ana Briongos why young people should travel.

In October 2020 she was the presenter of the program 'Va passar aquí' on the History and curiosities of the city of Barcelona, a television channel Betevé on 'La casa dels hippies, un edificio singular'[8] built in Barcelona in 1970 by the architects Lluís Clotet and Òscar Tusquets, inhabited by artists and liberal people who made the building a symbol of Barcelona's counterculture.

Briongos died on 25 June 2024 at the age of 77.[9]

Bibliography

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  • Winter in Kandahar: Life in Afghanistan Before the Taliban[1]
  • Black on Black: Iran Revisited[10]
  • La caverna di Alì Babà. L'Iran giorno per giorno[11]
  • Iran W jaskini Ali Baby[12]
  • A caverna de Ali-Babá[13]
  • Mijn leven in Iran - De bazaar van Isfahan[14]
  • Der grot van Alí Baba - Een lente in Isfahan[15]
  • L'enigma de la Pe Pi[16]
  • ¡Esto es Calcuta![17]
  • Iran Receptes i costums gastronòmics[18]
  • Geografías íntimas[19]
  • Mi cuaderno morado. El viaje más largo[20]

References

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  1. ^ a b Briongos, Ana M. (7 November 2008). Winter in Kandahar: Life in Afghanistan Before the Taliban. Trotamundas Press. p. 220. ISBN 978-1-906393-11-3.
  2. ^ "News 2009". Trotamundas Press. p. 1. Archived from the original on 26 July 2010. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
  3. ^ "Award shortlist announced". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. 26 May 2001. Archived from the original on 10 June 2014. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
  4. ^ "The 2001 Thomas Cook/Daily Telegraph Travel Book Award". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. 18 August 2001. p. 1. Archived from the original on 21 June 2008. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
  5. ^ "Page 10, Spain-Catalan". Archived from the original on 15 May 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  6. ^ "Page 19, Spain-Catalan". Archived from the original on 15 May 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  7. ^ "Junta Directiva de la Sociedad Geográfica Española". Archived from the original on 15 May 2014. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  8. ^ 'La casa dels hippies, un edifici singular Archived 16 October 2020 at the Wayback Machine'
  9. ^ S’ha mort l’escriptora de viatges Ana María Briongos (in Catalan)
  10. ^ M. Briongos, Ana; Andrews (Translator), Chris (1 February 2000). Black on Black: Iranian Travel Journals (1st ed.). Lonely Planet. p. 179. ISBN 0-86442-795-6. {{cite book}}: |last2= has generic name (help)
  11. ^ Briongos, Ana M. (1 April 2004). La caverna di Alì Babà. L'Iran giorno per giorno (1st ed.). Random House. p. 152. ISBN 88-7063-764-6.
  12. ^ Briongos, Ana M. (1 December 2007). Iran W jaskini Ali Baby (1st ed.). Ushuaia.pl. p. 208. ISBN 978-83-925306-1-9.
  13. ^ Briongos, Ana M. (1 July 2006). A caverna de Ali-Babá (1st ed.). Circulo de Leitores. p. 181. ISBN 972-42-3800-8.
  14. ^ Briongos, Ana M. (1 January 2004). Mijn leven in Iran - De bazaar van Isfahan (1st ed.). Uitgeverij Sirene. p. 222. ISBN 90-417-6046-6.
  15. ^ Briongos, Ana M. (1 November 2002). Der grot van Alí Baba - Een lente in Isfahan (1st ed.). Uitgeverij Sirene. p. 206. ISBN 90-5831-236-4.
  16. ^ Briongos, Ana M. (May 2001). L'enigma de la Pe Pi (1st ed.). Editorial Cruïlla. p. 110. ISBN 84-661-0274-4.
  17. ^ Briongos, Ana M. (February 2006). ¡Esto es Calcuta! (1st ed.). Ediciones B. p. 361. ISBN 84-666-2745-6.
  18. ^ Briongos, Ana M. (1 October 2008). Iran Receptes i costums gastronòmics (1st ed.). Alsina-Briongos. p. 55. ISBN 978-84-612-6751-4.
  19. ^ Briongos, Ana M. (2015). Geografías íntimas (1st ed.). Editorial Laertes, Barcelona. p. 168. ISBN 978-84-7584-990-4.
  20. ^ Briongos, Ana M. (2023). Mi cuaderno morado (1st ed.). Editorial Laertes, Barcelona. p. 243. ISBN 978-84-19676-20-7.
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