Josep Ballester i Roca

Invitado de Honor

Writer and professor in the Department of Language and Literature Teaching at the Universitat de València.

He has published the following poetry books: Passadís voraç del silenci (1985), Oasi (1989), Tatuatge (1989), L’holandés errant (1994), La mar (1997), L’odi (2005), Les muses inquietants (2006), A la intempèrie (2017) and Llibre dels somnis (2022).

His literary studies and essays include: Joan Fuster: una aventura lírica (1990), Temps de quarantena. Cultura i societat a la postguerra (1992 y 2006), La poesia catalana de postguerra al País Valencià (1995), L’educació literària (1999 y 2007), La traïció d’Ariadna (2001), La mirada de Xahrazad (2006), L’encantador de serps (2009 and 2024), Les ulleres de Bartleby (2011), Diàspores. Paraules i geografies d’exili (2017), Atles d’aigua i de pedra. Cartografies de la creació (2019) and Fuster instantani (2022).

He has also written the novel El col·leccionista de fades (2009).

His awards include the Ausiàs March, Ciutat de Palma, Vicent Andrés Estellés de los Premios Octubre, Premio de la Crítica dels Escriptors Valencians, Ciutat d’Alzira de novela, Josep Vallverdú de ensayo, Maria Mercè Marçal de poesía, and the Premio de la Generalitat Valenciana al mejor libro editado.

His work has been translated into English, Hungarian, Spanish, French and Chinese.

Other activities involving the participant:

Journeys. Tribute to Vicent Andrés Estellés

Vicent Berenguer

Invitado de Honor

(Banyeres de Mariola, Alicante, 1955) is a poet in Catalan, translator, and director of the poetry collections "Edicions de la Guerra" (1986-2016) and, currently, "Poesia" at the Institució Alfons el Magnànim.

He has published the poetry volumes: La terra interior (1989), Imitació de la soledat (1990; Premio Roís de Corella 1989), L’home no confia en la ciutat (1996), La terra interior i altres poemes (2011) and Paradís en perill (2023).

As a translator from Galician to Catalan, he has published Nimbes (1997) by Xosé María Díaz Castro; from Portuguese Matèria solar (1987) by Eugenio de Andrade; El cas Morel (1994) by Rubem Fonseca; Lisbon. Llibre de bord. Veus, mirades, records (2008) by José Cardoso Pires; Poesia completa. Cartes a Fernando Pessoa (2017) by Mário de Sá-Carneiro, and Poemes (2021) by Alexandre O’Neill; and from Spanish: Libro de los minutos y otros poemas (2009) by Gemma Gorga.

In the genre of children's theater, he co-published La llegenda del drac i la princesa (1997) with Jordi Garcia Vilar.

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Journeys. Tribute to Vicent Andrés Estellés

Aina García Carbó

Invitado de Honor

(Castelló de la Plana, 1993) She is a poet, writer, and rhapsodist, as well as a preschool teacher. She has a Master's in Children's and Young Adult Literature and Books (Banco del Libro de Venezuela - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

Her poetic work includes titles such as Rere la paraula (Onada Edicions, 2015), El cor heretge (2019, Bromera; Premi Alfons el Magnànim; Premi València Nova de Poesia), Crònicade la cadència (2020, Vincle Editorial; Premi Teodor Llorente de Poesia) and El vast domini (2023, Bromera; PremiCiutat d’Elx de Poesia); the children's poetry books Malifetes satisfetes (2021, Antana Editorial) and Quin mestratge, ser salvatge! (2024, Edelvidas), and also the selection and introduction of the poetic anthology of Isabel-Clara Simó El desig és foc i és gel, published by Tándem (2023). She was a finalist for the Premio de Poesía Salvador Iborra.

In addition to poetry, she has worked in other genres and forms, such as essay writing in the collective book Nosaltres les fusterianes (2017, Edicions 3i4) and Nosaltres els fusterians (2017, Perifèric Edicions). She has also ventured into narrative with Les detectives i el banquet de carxofa (2018, Fundación Bromera).

She has participated in numerous festivals and events, performing as a rhapsodist and reciting both her own work and that of other authors in various locations across Catalan-speaking territory.

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Journeys. Tribute to Vicent Andrés Estellés

Àngels Gregori

Invitado de Honor

(Oliva, Valencia, 1985)

She is a poet and cultural manager.  Her works include Bambolines; Quan els grans arbres cauen; New York, Nabokov & Bicicletes; Quan érem divendres and Jazz, for which she has received the awards Amadeu Oller, Alfons el Magnànim, Jocs Florals de Barcelona, Ausiàs March and Vicent Andrés Estellés. In 2019, she won the award Premio de la Crítica from Valencian writers and, in 2024, the Cavall Verd-Josep M. Llompart Award for the best book of the year in Catalan.

She directed Barcelona Poetry, the Sant Cugat Poetry Festival, the Lleida Poetry Festival, the meetings of the Casa Antonio Machado de Rocafort and the Mediterranean Writers' Meetings. From its creation in 2019 until 2023, she headed the Francisco Brines Foundation. In 2005, she created Poefesta, the Oliva Poetry Festival, which over the years has received the awards Premio de Fomento de la Lectura de la Fundació Bromera and Premio Difusión de la Literatura de la Associació d’Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (AELC). In 2024, she was appointed Commissioner of the Year of Estellés, in celebration of the centenary of the Valencian poet, and since 2021 she has been a member of the Valencian Language Academy.

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Journeys. Silent time. Tribute to Luis Martín-Santos
Journeys. Tribute to Vicent Andrés Estellés
Meetings (and misunderstandings). Luis Cernuda y Xavier Villaurrutia

Pau Alabajos

Invitado de Honor

(Torrent, 1982) is a Valencian singer who has released nine records since his debut in 2002. His artistic career has always been linked to the poetry of Vicent Andrés Estellés. He has recorded three CDs with songs inspired by the verses of the poet from Burjassot: Pau Alabajos diu Mural del País Valencià de Vicent Andrés Estellés (2013, Bureo Músicas), Ciutat a cau d’orella (2018, Bureo Músicas) and Una granota viva a la butxaca (2024, RGB Apoyos). He also holds a degree in Catalan Philology from the Universitat de València and teaches high school and university courses on Nova Cançó and the music poetry of Vicent Andrés Estellés and other poets such as Miquel Martí i Pol, Maria Mercè Marçal, Salvador Espriu, Marc Granell, Bartomeu Rosselló-Pòrcel and Joan Margarit.

In the literary field, Pau Alabajos has published two plays, Hotel Fontana (2019, Bromera) and El tocadiscos de Joan Fuster (2022, Bromera). In 2024, to mark the centenary of the birth of the baker's son, he premiered a theatrical musical show entitled Arbres de pols, inspired by a poem of the same name in Llibre de Meravelles, and he also wrote the first biography of the author of “Els amants,” published by the publishing house Siembra and which is now in its third edition, Vicent Andrés Estellés.La veu d’un poble.

Other activities involving the participant:

Journeys. Tribute to Vicent Andrés Estellés