Pepe Oliva
Pepe Oliva
Journalist
Born in Badalona in 1963, he started working for EFE in the first semester of 1986 on a double quarterly scholarship. Since then, he has worked as a journalist for the agency, always in its “Culture and Shows” section. During these 37 years, he has been able to cover many cultural areas, from cinema and theatre to music, literature and art.
He has covered major international events from a cultural point of view, such as the death of Salvador Dalí, the Cultural Olympiad in the four years leading up to the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, the International Archaeology Congress in Tarragona in 1993, the Sant Sebastián Film Festival twice, the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival from its inception in 1986 to the present day, and the cultural programme of the Universal Forum of Cultures in Barcelona in 2004.
He has also contributed to the informative coverage of art exhibitions and museum news in Barcelona over the last three decades.
During all this time as a cultural journalist, he has been able to interview writers such as Juan Marsé, Eduardo Mendoza, Enrique Vila-Matas, Javier Cercas, Juan Goytisolo, José Manuel Caballero Bonald, Joan Margarit, John Le Carré, Ken Follett, Isabel Allende, Carlos Fuentes, Philip Kerr, John Banville, Pierre Lemaitre, Éric Vuillard, Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk. He has also interviewed historians such as Ian Gibson, Paul Preston, Ángel Viñas and Eric Hobsbawm, and artists such as Pablo Palazuelo, Eduardo Arroyo, Antoni Tàpies, Jaume Plensa and Miquel Barceló.
He has covered major international events from a cultural point of view, such as the death of Salvador Dalí, the Cultural Olympiad in the four years leading up to the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, the International Archaeology Congress in Tarragona in 1993, the Sant Sebastián Film Festival twice, the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival from its inception in 1986 to the present day, and the cultural programme of the Universal Forum of Cultures in Barcelona in 2004.
He has also contributed to the informative coverage of art exhibitions and museum news in Barcelona over the last three decades.
During all this time as a cultural journalist, he has been able to interview writers such as Juan Marsé, Eduardo Mendoza, Enrique Vila-Matas, Javier Cercas, Juan Goytisolo, José Manuel Caballero Bonald, Joan Margarit, John Le Carré, Ken Follett, Isabel Allende, Carlos Fuentes, Philip Kerr, John Banville, Pierre Lemaitre, Éric Vuillard, Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk. He has also interviewed historians such as Ian Gibson, Paul Preston, Ángel Viñas and Eric Hobsbawm, and artists such as Pablo Palazuelo, Eduardo Arroyo, Antoni Tàpies, Jaume Plensa and Miquel Barceló.
