{"aliases":[],"awards":["Caf\u00e9 Gij\u00f3n Award"],"biography_summary":"Antoni Garc\u00eda \"A. G.\" Porta (born 1954) is a Spanish novelist. Porta was born in Barcelona in 1954. His first published work a collaboration with Roberto Bola\u00f1o entitled Advice from a Morrison Disciple to a Joyce Fanatic (Consejos de un disc\u00edpulo de Morrison a un fan\u00e1tico de Joyce) in 1984. It won the Premio \u00c1mbito Literario. This was also Bola\u00f1o's first published novel. Their collaboration would produce one more work before Porta abandoned literature for fifteen years to work a variety of jobs. In 1999, he published Braudel on Braudel (Braudel por Braudel), marking his work's return to publication. This was followed by The Weight of the Air (El peso del aire) in 2001 and Singapore (Singapur) in 2003. In 2006, Porta published The No World Concerto (Concierto del No Mundo) which had won the Premio Caf\u00e9 Gij\u00f3n in 2005. In 2008 he published Geography of Time (Geograph\u00eda del tiempo). A fictionalized version of Porta appears in Bola\u00f1o's posthumously published work Woes of the True Policeman.","birth_date":"1954-01-01","birth_place":"Barcelona","birth_place_coordinates":{"latitude":41.3825,"longitude":2.176944},"birth_place_wikidata_id":"Q1492","birth_place_wikidata_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1492","canonical_name":"Antonio Porta","canonical_url":"https://ja.instaget.online/people/548999a49022d46f51822dc4","citizenships":["Spain"],"death_date":null,"description":"Spanish novelist (1954-)","external_ids":{"isni":{"id":"0000000079758922","url":"https://isni.org/isni/0000000079758922"},"loc":{"id":"n85190865","url":"https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85190865.html"},"viaf":{"id":"56826096","url":"https://viaf.org/viaf/56826096/"}},"full_name":"Antonio Porta","height_cm":null,"names":{"aliases":["A. G. Porta","Antoni Garc\u00eda Porta","Antoni Garcia Porta"],"birth":[],"native":[],"official":[]},"native_name":null,"notable_works":[],"occupations":["writer"],"official_websites":[],"photo":null,"profile_url":"https://ja.instaget.online/people/548999a49022d46f51822dc4","provenance":{"catalog":"wikidata_wikipedia","fetched_at":"2026-08-29T07:00:21Z","social_archives_included":false,"source_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2857406"},"public_hash":"548999a49022d46f51822dc4","schema_version":"1.1","socials":{},"tags":[{"key":"category:arts-and-culture","label":"Arts and culture","type":"category"},{"key":"occupation:writer","label":"writer","type":"occupation"},{"key":"country:barcelona","label":"Barcelona","type":"country"},{"key":"citizenship:spain","label":"Spain","type":"citizenship"}],"wikidata_id":"Q2857406","wikidata_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2857406","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._G._Porta"}