Carlota Gurt

Invitado de Honor

Carlota Gurt, born in Barcelona in 1976, has been a translator for more than ten years, and in another life, she worked as a producer for the theatre company La Fura dels Baus and the Festival Temporada Alta. She juggles her real life and her literary life and contributes to various media outlets. Her work includes the short story collection Cavalcarem tota la nit (2019 Mercè Rodoreda Award) and the novel Sola (2020), both of which have been translated into several languages. In 2023, she published the short story collection Biografia del foc.

Other activities involving the participant:

Of families, happy and unhappy in their own way
Praise (from Barcelona) for the story
Annual International Storytellers Conference

Pablo Martín Sánchez

Invitado de Honor

Pablo Martín Sánchez (Reus, 1977) holds a PhD in French Language and Literature from the University of Lille and a PhD in Literary and Artistic Theory and Comparative Literature from the University of Granada. A member of the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (Oulipo), he works regularly as a translator and creative writing instructor. In addition to Fricciones (Frictions) (2024), he has published the novels The Anarchist Who Shared My Name (Acantilado, 2012 (English publication: Deep Vellum, 2018)), Tuyo es el mañana (Yours is Tomorrow) (Acantilado, 2016) and Diario de un viejo cabezota (Diary of a Stubborn Old Man) (Acantilado, 2020), as well as Agatha (2017), co-written with Sara Mesa. His work has been translated into French, English, Czech and Dutch.

Other activities involving the participant:

Praise (from Barcelona) for the story

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:

Feminist gaze and male guilt
The right to language
Bodies in transit: writing the self beyond labels

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
Learn how to write
Sustainable narratives
The seduction of historical figures
Expanded noir literature
Tribute to Ana María Matute. Grand literature
(Literally) killers in Barcelona
Literary agencies in Barcelona