RIP Jorge de Cominges

 

Writer and journalist Jorge de Cominges has died at the age of 78.

 

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By Brandon

January 17, 223

 

This Jorge de Cominges, Barcelona-based writer, journalist and film critic. Director of the magazine ‘Qué Leer’ and editor-in-chief of ‘Fotogramas’, Died this Tuesday in the Catalan capital at the age of 78 from a serious illness. Family sources reported.

Openly, De Cominges’ death ‘Fotogramas’ reacted on social networks noting that he is “an important figure in the history of the magazine” and “one of its most beloved members”.

As a writer, he is the author of the novels ‘A carnation between the teeth’ (1989), ‘Tul ilusión’ (1993) or ‘Las Adelfas’ (1997) in which he portrays the high society and ruined characters of Barcelona. ‘A Very Intensive Course’ (1999) is a teen novel that he wrote with his daughter Clara.

His last literary foray was ‘El astonishment’ (2009). A work in which the heroine, the daughter of the Catalan bourgeoisie, rebelled against her social origin by devoting herself to the field of film and theater production during the Transition period, closing the novel “quartet” dedicated to Barcelona. High society.

He also published a book of cinematographic memoirs called ‘My Cinema Years (1976-1979)’. Between description and ‘quality’ (2001) and his autobiography ‘Memories of a stranger’ (2004).

In the presentation of these memoirs, Jorge de Cominges admitted: From my attachment to a bourgeois family, then my work in cinema and then my work in journalism, I have always felt like an outsider, out of place. anyone”.

Born in Barcelona in January 1945, Jorge de Cominges graduated from the University of Barcelona in Law, although he did not practice law and worked as a film technician from 1968-1980.

Since 1976 he has been a film critic for publications such as Destino, El Noticiero Universal and El Periódico de Catalunya.

He joined Fotogramas magazine in 1981, where he served as editor-in-chief until 1996, when he took over the management of the literary magazine ‘Qué Leer’ in 1989.

In 1971 he married journalist Margarita Rivière, a reference to Catalan journalism and died in 2015, and they had two children, Clara and Hugo.

de COMINGES, Jorge (Jorge de Cominges Trías)

Born: 1/?/ 1945, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Died: 1/17/1923, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

 

Jorge de Cominges’ westerns – script supervisor:

Stagecoach of the Condemned – 1970

Twenty Paces to Death (Saranda) - 1970