Edith Wharton emerged as one of America’s most insightful novelists, deftly exposing the tensions between societal expectation and personal desire through her vivid portrayals of upper-class life. Dra…
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…
Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Am…
Jesús Moncada i Estruga fou un escriptor en llengua catalana nascut a Mequinensa (Baix Cinca) el 1941 i mort a Barcelona el 13 de juny de 2005. La població de la Franja d'Aragó, on va viure fins a la …
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…
Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Bloodbath Nation, Baumgartner, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias…
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…
Aki Shimazaki is a Canadian novelist and translator. She moved to Canada in 1981, living in Vancouver and Toronto. Since 1991 she has lived in Montreal, where she teaches Japanese and publishes her no…
Victor Català was the penname of Caterina Albert i Paradís, a catalan writer who took part in catalan Modernism movement. Her literary skill was first recognized in 1898, when she received the Jocs Fl…
Ramon Folch i Camarasa (Barcelona, 1926-2019). Traductor, novel·lista i autor teatral. Novè fill del popular escriptor Josep Maria Folch i Torres, es llicencia en Dret però mai no exerceix d'advocat. …
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…
Milena Busquets was born in Barcelona in 1972. She attended the Lycée Français de Barcelone and obtained a degree in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology in University College London. She wor…
Eider Rodríguez Martín (Rentería, 1979) es periodista, editora, traductora y guionista. Ha publicado hasta el momento el volumen de relatos Y poco después ahora (Ttarttalo, 2007, publicado en versión …
Maria Sevilla Paris (Badalona, 22 de març de 1990) és una poeta i docent catalana que imparteix com a professora associada a la Universitat de Barcelona. Ha recitat al Regne Unit, al Festival VEU de M…
Marta Orriols Balaguer (Sabadell, 1975), historiadora de l’art de formació, viu i treballa a Barcelona i té dos fills. En el camp de l’escriptura ha estudiat guió cinematogràfic a l’escola de cinema B…
(El Pla del Penedès, 1988) és filòloga especialitzada en teoria de la literatura. Es dedica a l’ensenyament de la llengua i la literatura catalana a joves. El que pensen els altres és el seu debut lit…
Pol Guasch (Tarragona, 1997) is a poet and member of the cultural production company La Sullivan. He earned an undergraduate degree in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature (University of Barcelo…
