Ferran Garcia

Invitado de Honor

Ferran Garcia Moreno was born on the Plain of Vic, and that explains a lot. He has published the novels Recorda que moriràs (Males Herbes, 2016), Blasfèmia (Males Herbes, 2019) and Guilleries (Males Herbes, 2022). As for poetry, he is the author of Larva (Lleonard Muntaner Editor, 2017; Pare Colom Poetry Award) and the unpublished collection Magror (21st Pere Badia Poetry Award, 2021). He has also published short stories in various anthologies and won the Recvll Award in 2020 for Òpera Creus,about the late writer Miquel Creus, from the same region of Catalonia. Sau (Males Herbes, 2025) is his most recent novel.

Other activities involving the participant:

The literature that disturbs

Montse Albets

Invitado de Honor

Montse Albets Reig, born in Mataró in 1977, has worked as a bookseller, editor, publishing consultant and book club organiser. As well as university studies in Catalan language and literature, she has a degree in pre-school education, with a special interest in reading comprehension and reading aloud. She has also completed complementary literature studies at the Ateneu Barcelonès and the Campus Lolita, among other institutions. She won the 36th Ferran Canyameres Short Story Award for the story Convivència veïnal. In her first novel, Només terra, només pluja, només fang, memory and spoken language play a key role in narrating the characters’ relationships and emotions.
 

Other activities involving the participant:

Conquering the blank page: The first novel