JUAN JOSÉ CAMISÓN

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He was born in Torre de Don Miguel (Cáceres, Spain) in 1949. He made his first studies in Fuente de Cantos, Badajoz and Cáceres. Bachelor of Arts (French and English Philology) by the University of Salamanca in 1972, he worked next year as Spanish Language Assistant in Nice (France). In 1982 he becomes French

Chair Associate Professor of the Normal School of Cáceres. Nowadays he is French Language and Literature Professor at the Faculty of Formación del Profesorado of the University of Extremadura.

He has obtained, among others, the Prizes "Gabriel y Galán" and "Luis Chamizo" of Poetry, and has been a Finalist in the " Prize of Poetry Ateneo de Madrid, 1 º of May". It has published essays in CUADERNOS DE FILOLOGÍA FRANCESA (NOTEBOOKS OF FRENCH PHILOLOGY), in ARS ET SAPIENTIA (Magazine of the Letters and Arts Royal Academy of Estremadura's Friends Association), IN FIESTAS PARA VIAJAR Y CONOCER, in the digital Magazines BELSANA, PASEO VIRTUAL POR EXTREMADURA (VIRTUAL WALK AROUND ESTREMADURA), PAISAJES A AMBOS LADOS DE LA RAYA (LANDSCAPES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORD), CIEN POR CIEN EXPERTOS (HUNDRED X HUNDRED EXPERTS), LA DONCELLA SALVAJE (THE WILD MAIDEN), and in other publications. He has taken part in the I and the II Congress on the Estremadurian Language with interesting Communications. To him belongs the " MANIFEST ON THE EXTREMADURAN DIALECT", read in the I Congress.

But especially he has written Historical Novel, Short Novel and Poetry, both in Spanish and in the Extremaduran Language.

Juan José Camisón demonstrates with the use of the word and the multiple shades of the Extremadura language in situations so diverse as the tenderness, the tragedy, the cunning, the eroticism or the sauciness that, far from being this one a dialect of coarse people- as to many like to label it - the Extremaduran is a versatile, rich and deep language that can express the feelings of the human being so well, but better, than the Spanish or that any other language do.

Being native of Cáceres, nevertheless he never forgot the rich vocabulary of Badajoz that he learned of young man, and that is always present in all his Extremaduran poems.

Among his works, they excel the following ones:

EL CORAZÓN Y LA ESPADA (THE HEART AND THE SWORD), published in 1999.

MANIFEST ON THE EXTREMADURAN LANGUAGE, published in the Acts of the I Extremaduran Congress, 2001.

LOVE SONNETS, published in 2002.

MARABAJAS (Extremaduran Poetry, written in Extremaduran Language), published in 2002.

LA MARDICIÓN DE MARIÁN (THE CURSE OF MARIAN), 2003, strange story written also in Extremaduran language.

SAINT EULALIA OF MERIDA IN A FRENCH BALLAD OF THE IXTH CENTURY, published in Notebooks of French Philology in 2004.

REFLECTIONS ABOUT THE PIORNAL's JARRAMPLAS, published in 2005

SAINT EULALIAS' CANTILENE. LINGUISTIC APROACH (and 2), published in Notebooks of French Philology 2006

THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT, published in ONDA JAEN, 2006

THE MEMORY'S LENS. GUIJO DE GRANADILLA: 100 AÑOS DE IMÁGENES (100 YEARS OF PICTURES), Published by the Guijo de Granadilla (Cáceres)'s townhall, may 2007.

COSAS D'ENANTIS (OLD TIMES THINGS), included in GUIJO DE GRANADILLA, 100 AÑOS DE IMÁGENES (100YEARS OF PICTURES), published by the Guijo de Granadilla (Cáceres)'s townhall, may 2007.

DESCUBRIR EL GUIJO (DISCOVERING GUIJO), included in GUIJO DE GRANADILLA, 100 AÑOS DE IMÁGENES (100YEARS OF PICTURES), published by the Guijo de Granadilla (Cáceres)'s townhall, may 2007.

EL CAPAZO, published by FIESTAS PARA VIAJAR Y CONOCER, 2008.

already on sale in bookshops in 2 volumes: EL SITARISTA DE JAISALMER Y OTROS CUENTOS DESCONCERTANTES y CUENTOS DESCONCERTANTES II: LOS INVISIBLES(THE SITARIST FROM JAISALMER AND OTHER DISCOUNTCERTING STORIES and DISCOUNCERTING STORIES II: THE INVISIBLE ONES) (Prose, 30 stories, 800 pages)