Quim Monzó was born in Barcelona in 1952. He has been awarded the National Award for fiction; the City of Barcelona Award for fiction; the Prudenci Bertrana Award for fiction; the El Temps Award for be…
Eduardo Mendoza Garriga studied law in the first half of the 1960s and lived in New York between 1973 and 1982, working as interpreter for the United Nations.
Manuel de Pedrolo i Molina (l'Aranyó, la Segarra, 1 d'abril de 1918 - Barcelona, 26 de juny de 1990) fou un escriptor català. Conreà tots els gèneres literaris: poesia, teatre —classificat dins del te…
She is considered by many to be the most important Catalan novelist of the postwar period. Her novel "La plaça del diamant" ('The diamond square', transl…
Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986). She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller…
Escriptor, periodista i dibuixant. Estudià a l'Escola Superior de Belles Arts. Es donà a conèixer a L'Esquella de la Torratxa (1936), revista que dirigí durant la darrera època amb Avel·lí Artís i Gen…
Albert Sánchez Piñol was born in Barcelona in 1965 and is an anthropologist and writer. His writing has appeared in several journals, and Cold Skin is his first novel. Already translated into fifteen …
Josep Maria de Sagarra i Castellarnau 1894-1961, Catalonian poet, novelist, and playwright. He published his first poems at the age of 12 and later, on the advice of his mentors Miquel Costa i Llobera…
Manuel Baixauli (Sueca, 1963) és pintor i escriptor. És autor de la novel·la L'home manuscrit, que va acumular els guardons següents: Premi Mallorca de Narrativa, 2006; Premi Salambó de Narrativa en C…
Sergi Pàmies i Bertran (París, 1960) es un narrador francès en llengua catalana. Traductor de llibres i escriptor d'articles de premsa, actualment al diari La Vanguardia. És fill de Teresa Pàmies i Gre…
Irene Solà is a Spanish writer and an artist. She has exhibited her work at the CCCB in Barcelona and the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Her first book of poems Bèstia won the 2012 Amadeu Oller Prize …
Es periodista y escritora especializada en temas sociales, trabajo, feminismos y cultura popular con perspectiva de clase y género. Máster en Antropología Social, es autora de la novela Listas, guapas…
Pauline Harmange is an author and a feminist, writer of "I Hate Men", the feminist outburst published in 18 languages. She strongly believes that fiction has a crucial role to play in shaping represen…
