Arià Paco

Invitado de Honor

Arià Paco (Igualada, 1993) és doctor en filosofia por la Universidad de Arizona. Ha publicado tres novelas en catalán, Mentir a les mosques (2020)  y Covarda, vella, tan salvatge (2022), Premio Roc Boronat, y éste 2025 ha sido ganador del Premi Llibres Anagrama de Novel.la con la novela Teoria del joc, que ahora se publica en castellano como Teoría del juego. Colabora en distintos medios digitales y podcasts culturales.

Other activities involving the participant:

Sexual awakening

Bel Olid

Invitado de Honor

Bel Olid (Mataró, 1977) is a writer and translator, as well as the coordinator of the Catalan Studies programme at the University of Chicago, where they teach language and literature.
Their work, which engages with contemporary debates on gender, identity and sexuality, has been translated into several languages. In September they will publish the essay La mare incompleta (The Incomplete Mother), which explores the hidden costs of assisted reproduction.
 

Other activities involving the participant:

The right to language
From where one writes
Bodies in transit: writing the self beyond labels

Txell Feixas

Invitado de Honor

Txell Feixas Torras, born in Mediona in 1979, is a journalist. She has worked in Beirut as a Middle East correspondent for the Catalan Audiovisual Media Corporation. She covered the war against the Islamic State in Iraq, the fall of the Caliphate from Rojava and the Great March of Return in Gaza, among other crucial events in the area.
Before that, she followed the kidnapping of the Barcelona Acció Solidària volunteers in Mauritania, for which Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility, and the humanitarian crisis at the Ceuta border fence
with Morocco, among other various conflicts. She has published Dones valentes and Aliades with Ara Llibres.
 

Other activities involving the participant:

Reading and writing in times of war