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.

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Of families, happy and unhappy in their own way
From where one writes
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.

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From where one writes