Irene Pujadas

Invitado de Honor

She worked at the magazine Butxaca for five years, has written for publications such as Ara Llegim, La Llança and La Lectora, and has contributed to several short story anthologies. In 2017 she co-founded the fiction magazine Branca and currently works at Angle Editorial. In 2020 she won the Documenta Prize with Els desperfectes (The Imperfect Ones), a short story collection that also received the City of Barcelona Prize. In summer 2024, the story that gives the book its title was published in The New Yorker. La intrusa (The Intruder) (L’Altra Editorial, 2025) is her first novel.
 

Other activities involving the participant:

Comedy: How hard is it to write?
Tribute to Pere Calders

Alba Muñoz

Invitado de Honor

Journalist and writer. She has worked as an independent reporter in various parts of the world, most notably the Balkans, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. From 2018 to 2019, she lived in South Africa, where she contributed to El País and 5W. For five years, she was a writer and editor at the online magazine PlayGround, specialising in digital journalism and feminism. She has also written for the BBC, El Mundo, ElDiario.es and other media. Her first documentary, Now You Are a Woman, won the Audience Award at the FIRE!! festival in 2019. Between May and June 2023, she took part in the Finestres literary residency. She currently works in communications and as a scriptwriter for audiovisual projects.

Other activities involving the participant:

Reading and writing in times of war
Reframing feminism: motherhood, surrogacy, and other ongoing struggles