Jordi Cussà (Berga, 1961- Berga, 2021) was a Catalan writer, translator and actor. Although he lived variously in Barcelona, Sant Cugat del Vallès and Naples, he retained strong roots in his hometown of Berga, where he founded Anònim Teatre in 1978. In the 1980s, he began writing short stories and his first novel Wild Horses was published in 2000. It reflected the drug addiction that began in the 80s, and which he referred to as his “red years”. The novel, like the ones to follow, was celebrated for its formal and linguistic innovations and, despite going out of print, it became a cult classic. In the early 2000s, he began to both write verse and translate writers from English into Catalan, among them John Boyne, Truman Capote, Patricia Highsmith and Chuck Palahniuk. He also translated the poems of Yeats and Shakespeare as well as the lyrics of Bob Dylan, the Beatles and Leonard Cohen. He died in 2021 at the age of 60.

• Wild Horses