Julen Gossíp

Julen Manuel Vicente (Bilbao, 1973), also known as Julen Gossíp, El Partisano, Señor Alien, or Giuliano de Re, holds a degree in Psychology and has lived and travelled extensively in London and Granada. He began his career as a solo singer-songwriter and later became a member of the multidisciplinary collective Núcleo de Nuevos Autores (NNA), within which he helped organise the Granada International Singer-Songwriter Festival Abril para Vivir during its first three editions.

To date, he has published Es posible que sea un Alien (Agol Publishing, 2016) and A tracción animal – Poems of Non-Love by an Alien (4 de Agosto Publishing, 2018). He has received several awards, including the Abril para Vivir Singer-Songwriter Prize in 2006 and 2014, an honourable mention in the Short Short Story Competition of the Book Fair in 2005, the First Prize in Relatos con Zapatos (Arnedo), and the Second Prize in the Love and Heartbreak Letters Competition awarded by the Municipality of Almuñécar in 2012.