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

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:

The journey that transforms
Tribute to Pere Calders

Regina Rodríguez Sirvent

Invitado de Honor

Regina Rodríguez Sirvent, born in Puigcerdà in 1983, graduated in psychology, but after working in the field for a year realised it wasn’t for her. She moved abroad in search of herself. On her return, she studied screenwriting at ESCAC and took novel-writing courses at the Ateneu Barcelonès. She has published articles, written scripts for TV programmes and presented video reports.
Unlike most début authors, she had never won a literary contest or ‘floral games’ when she published Les calces al sol (Panties in the Sun), her first novel. However, a year later – following its success, with more than 30,000 readers – she won the L’Illa dels Llibres popular vote prize.
 

Other activities involving the participant:

Conquering the blank page: The first novel

Oriol Canosa

Invitado de Honor

Oriol Canosa, born in 1975 in Tarragona, is a children’s writer. He has published more than 30 books for all ages, from early readers to teenagers, and even a couple of things for adults. Children’s fiction is where he feels at home, though. For many years, he worked as a bookseller at various book shops in Barcelona. His best known books include L’illa de Paidonèsia, El bandi i les bessones Mataquín, the Els Robotots series, La vaga de les granotes, Hola, micos! and Els germans Corb. Among his accolades are the 2016 Folch i Torres , 2017 Ala Delta, 2018 Cavall Fort and 2022 Carmesina awards, as well as the 2025 Llibreter Award. On top of that, he contributes to all sorts of magazines for children and young people and gives talks in schools all over Catalonia whenever he can. He has walked across Europe on more than one occasion and wrote about his experiences in La balada del vell món, a book for adults about journeys on foot.

Other activities involving the participant:

How to write for children and young adults

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:

The journey that transforms
Comedy: How hard is it to write?

Jaume Subirana

Escritor, traductor y académico catalán. Doctor en filología catalana y profesor en la Universitat Pompeu Fabra, ha publicado poesía, ensayo y diarios, combinando reflexión cultural y sensibilidad literaria. Entre sus obras poéticas se encuentran Final de festa y Una pedra sura. También ha traducido a autores como Seamus Heaney y Gary Snyder al catalán. Su trabajo académico explora la identidad cultural, la literatura comparada y la proyección internacional de la literatura catalana. Fue director de la Institució de les Lletres Catalanes (2004–2006), desde donde impulsó el reconocimiento global de las letras catalanas. Acaba de publicar el ensayo Literatura, lengua y lugar. Termodinámica aplicada.

Other activities involving the participant:

Presentation Antología de Poesía Catalana

José María Murià Rouret

José María Murià Rouret es un historiador, escritor, museógrafo, catedrático, articulista y académico mexicano que ha centrado sus investigaciones en la historia de Jalisco, los acontecimientos de Nueva Galicia, la evolución territorial del estado de Jalisco, el origen de la charrería y el desarrollo del tequila.​

Es egresado de la Universidad de Guadalajara y doctorado por El Colegio de México (1969), es investigador del INAH y del SNI.  Cabe agregar que en 2016 se convirtió en miembro correspondiente del Institut d´Estudis Catalans y en 2018 fue nombrado miembro de la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua.

Other activities involving the participant:

When Mexico saved Barça

Màrius Serra

Invitado de Honor

Màrius Serra (Barcelona, 1963) is a writer. His literary work, translated into seven languages, has received awards including the City of Barcelona, Serra d’Or, Lletra d’Or, Ramon Llull and Sant Jordi prizes. He has published over 12,000 crosswords, 5,000 articles and around 30 books, among them Mon oncle (My Uncle), La vida normal (The Normal Life), Verbàlia, Farsa (Farse), Quiet, Plans de futur (Plans for the Future), Res no és perfecte a Hawaii (Everything Is Far from Perfect in Hawaii), La novel·la de Sant Jordi (Saint George’s Novel) and La dona més pintada (The Most Painted Woman). He has translated into Catalan works by Edmund White, Tom Sharpe, Groucho Marx, Henry Miller and Tom Stoppard, among others. His d version of the classic Tirant lo Blanc by Joanot Martorell has been widely acclaimed by specialists and enjoyed great popular success. It has even been adapted for the stage. He is currently working on two series: Les aventures de la Napeu (The Adventures of Napeu), for readers aged 8 to 98, and the Comas i Coma series, the fourth instalment of which is El rol del Roc (Roc’s Role).

Other activities involving the participant:

When Mexico saved Barça
Sant Jordi with Màrius Serra
What's up with Catalan?