Adrià Pujol

Invitado de Honor

Adrià Pujol i Cruells (Begur, 1974) is an anthropologist, translator and writer. He combines teaching with museography and applied research. He has published essays, memoir and fiction. Among his works, notable titles include the autofiction Barcelona Potholes; the chronicles Seixanta-sis sinofosos (Sixty‑Six Sinophobes); the novels Els llocs on ha dormit Jonàs (The Places Where Jonàs Slept) and Mr. Folch; the essays I SI (especulacions sobre llenguatge i literatura) (WHAT IF: Speculations on Language and Literature), O NO (llegir, escriure, publicar) (OR NOT: Reading, Writing, Publishing) and La carpeta és blava (The Folder Is Blue); the Guia sentimental de l’Empordanet (Sentimental Guide to the Empordanet) and the literary artefact El fill del corrector / Arre, arre, corrector (The Proof‑reader’s Son / Arre, arre, Proof‑reader), co-authored with Rubén Martín Giráldez. He has translated works by Georges Perec, Pierre Michon, Bruno Latour, Raymond Roussel and Louis Calaferte, among others.

Other activities involving the participant:

Barcelona today: a transformation

Álvaro Colomer

Invitado de Honor

Writer and journalist. He is the author of a trilogy on the death of the city – La calle de los suicidios (Suicide Street) (Círculo de Lectores, 2000), Mimodrama de una ciudad muerta (Mimodrama of a Dead City) (Siruela, 2004) and Los bosques de Upsala (The Forests of Uppsala) (Alfaguara, 2009) – as well as Aunque caminen por el valle de la muerte (Even Though They Walk Through the Valley of Death) (Random House, 2017), a novel based on real events which reconstructs the Battle of Najaf (Iraq). He has also published the non-fiction works Se alquila una mujer (Woman for Hire) (MR, 2002) and Guardianes de la memoria (Guardians of Memory) (MR, 2008; Fórcola, 2020), a travel book that earned him the International Award for Excellence in Journalism. He is also the author of books for children and young adults.
After three decades contributing to a range of media outlets, he is now editorial coordinator at Zenda magazine, a regular contributor to the ‘Cultura/s’ supplement (La Vanguardia) and a frequent guest on the radio programme A vivir (Cadena Ser). He also teaches in the Master’s in Publishing at the UPF School of Management, among other roles.
 

Other activities involving the participant:

Writing to acknowledge 50 years of loyalty
Barcelona today: a transformation
Sustainable narratives
The seduction of historical figures
Expanded noir literature
Tribute to Ana María Matute. Grand literature
(Literally) killers in Barcelona
From where one writes
Literary agencies in Barcelona

Mar García Puig

Invitado de Honor

Mar García Puig born in Barcelona in 1977, has a bachelor’s degree in English language and literature and a master’s degree in linguistics. She wrote La història dels vertebrats (La Magrana, 2023), which won the City of Barcelona Award, the No Llegiu Award and the Vanity Fair Award for best new author. Also published in Spanish (Random House, 2023), it will soon be translated into French, English and Portuguese and turned into a film. A publisher and translator by profession, she has contributed to media outlets such as El País, La Vanguardia, El Periódico, El Diario and Público, and she has a section on the Catalunya Ràdio programme Les dones i els dies. She also gives talks and workshops on the relationship between literature and madness.
 

Other activities involving the participant:

Female narratives