Begoña Gómez Urzaiz

Invitado de Honor

Begoña Gómez Urzaiz (Tarragona, 1980) is a Barcelona-based journalist and writer. She writes regularly for La Vanguardia, co-hosts the podcast Amiga, date cuenta on Radio Primavera Sound and is a regular contributor to the programme Vostè primer on RAC1. Her bylines have appeared in publications such as El País, Vogue and Vanity Fair, and she has taught in the Master’s in Literary Journalism at the UAB. She edited and wrote the foreword to the collectively authored volume Neorrancios. Contra los peligros de la nostalgia (Neorrancios. On the Dangers of Nostalgia). The Abandoners: Of Mothers and Monsters is her first book. It has been translated into English, French, German, Portuguese and Polish and was published by Borough Press in the UK and Ireland, Norton in the US, Aufbau Verlag in Germany, Zahar in Brazil, Karakter in Poland and Stock in France.

Other activities involving the participant:

Tribute to Montserrat Roig +. Words in struggle
Pódcast: Amiga date cuenta (Radio Primavera Sound)
Pódcast: Amiga date cuenta. (Radio Primavera sound)
Bad mothers
Literature by the ear

Gemma Ruiz

Invitado de Honor

Journalist and writer. She has worked at Televisió de Catalunya’s news service since the age of 21, primarily as a cultural correspondent for Telenotícies, and is now editor-in-chief. In 2016 she published Argelagues, which became a literary phenomenon. Four years later, her novel Ca la Wenling (Wenling’s) cemented her standing with readers. With Les nostres mares (Our Mothers), she won the 62nd Sant Jordi Prize for Fiction. Her work has been translated into English, Spanish, French and Italian.

Elisenda Solsona

Invitado de Honor

Elisenda Solsona (Olesa de Montserrat, 1984) is a writer and secondary school teacher. She holds undergraduate degrees in humanities, from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), and audiovisual communication, from the University of Barcelona (UB). She also studied for the Master’s in Writing for Television and Cinema at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and has taken several writing courses at the Obrador de la Sala Beckett and the Ateneu Barcelonès School of Writing. She has published Cirurgies (Surgeries) (Voliana Edicions, 2016), Satèl·lits (Satellites) (Males Herbes, 2019) – which won the 2020 Imperdible Prize for Best Fantasy Book in Catalan and the 2020 Ictineu Prize for Best Anthology and Best Short Story in Catalan – and Mammalia (Males Herbes, 2024), which was shortlisted for the 2025 Òmnium Prize for Best Novel in Catalan and won the Ictineu Prize for Best Fantasy Novel in Catalan. She has contributed to the anthology Autòctones (Natives) (Comanegra, 2023) and to The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories (Valancourt, 2020) with the short story ‘Mechanisms’ (translated by Mara Faye Lethem from ‘Engranatges’, originally published in Satèl·lits).