Arturo San Agustín, Barcelona chronicler, sharp journalist and writer, dies
He was also a Vatican expert and teacher of journalists.
BarcelonaOne of the most inquisitive perspectives on the city of Barcelona is coming to an end. Journalist and writer Arturo San Agustín (Barcelona, 1949) has passed away, according to reports. The Vanguard, one of the newspapers that had welcomed his chronicles and opinion pieces. Raised alongside the Somorrostro and Barceloneta newspapers, he first cut his teeth as an advertising executive. After ten years of practice, he switched to journalism, where he applied the knowledge from his previous career to achieve direct and creative communication. Always attentive to the cultural and social changes in Barcelona, he focused a large part of his production on this topic, and also published in media such as The World either The Newspaper.
Barça and the Vatican are two other topics that also piqued his curiosity. He captured this in some of his book-length works, such as The robot that believes in God, a novel in which Saint Augustine narrates how a future pope, Innocent XIV, collides with a robot that spontaneously makes the sign of the cross. In the field of essays, he wrote Behind the bronze gate, which analyzed the Vatican reality during the time of Pope Francis. His other books include titles such as Sunrise on the Gianicolo, Sentimental passport either Vacuum pen, the latter dedicated to Aragon, where his family originated.
His career was recognized in 1999 with the Ciutat de Barcelona Journalism Award. In fact, Saint Augustine also inspired vocations with his book Mom, I want to be a journalist, a tender and ironic book that promised to reveal "the whole truth, or almost, about the craziest profession in the world" and in which he explained that "some diaries are read, others are strolled through." Another relevant book of his, published in 2014, was. When ours got screwed, in which he analyzed the complicated relationship between Catalonia and Spain with incisive interviews with figures such as Miquel Iceta, Jordi Pujol, José Cuní, Enrique Juliana, José Manuel Lara and Juan Manuel Tresserras.