Juan Goytisolo (born 6 January 1931 in Barcelona) is a Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist. He lives in Marrakech.

Background ]

Juan Goytisolo was born to an aristocratic family. He has claimed that this level of privilege, accompanied by the cruelties of his great-grandfather and the miserliness of his grandfather (discovered through the reading of old family letters and documents), was a major reason for his joining the Communist party in his youth.[2] His father was imprisoned by the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War, while his mother (Julia Gay [3]) was killed in the first Francoist air raid in 1938.