Txell Feixas

Invitado de Honor

Txell Feixas Torras, born in Mediona in 1979, is a journalist. She has worked in Beirut as a Middle East correspondent for the Catalan Audiovisual Media Corporation. She covered the war against the Islamic State in Iraq, the fall of the Caliphate from Rojava and the Great March of Return in Gaza, among other crucial events in the area.
Before that, she followed the kidnapping of the Barcelona Acció Solidària volunteers in Mauritania, for which Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility, and the humanitarian crisis at the Ceuta border fence
with Morocco, among other various conflicts. She has published Dones valentes and Aliades with Ara Llibres.
 

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Feminist gaze and male guilt

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:

The journey that transforms
Reframing feminism: motherhood, surrogacy, and other ongoing struggles

Marta Orriols

Invitado de Honor

Marta Orriols lives in Barcelona. She trained as an art historian and has also worked in film scriptwriting. She contributes regularly to various magazines and newspapers. A keen admirer of Anglo‑Saxon literature, she oversaw the Spanish-language edition of the short‑story anthology by Edna O’Brien The Love Object (Objeto de amor, Lumen, 2018). She made her début with Lumen through the short‑story collection Anatomía de las distancias cortas (Anatomy of Short Distances) (2017), which had already been published in Catalan in 2016 and was met with accolades. Within less than a month, it became a best‑seller and was included among the recommended Christmas reads, and Granta magazine selected one of her stories for its Spanish‑language edition. Her first novel, Learning to Talk to Plants (Lumen, 2018 [English publication: Pushkin Press, 2020]), was awarded the Òmnium Prize for the best Catalan‑language novel of 2018 and the L’Illa dels Llibres Prize, and has been translated into eleven languages. Dulce introducción al caos (Sweet Introduction to Chaos) is her most recent novel.

Other activities involving the participant:

Friendship

Ramón Mas Baucells

Invitado de Honor

Ramon Mas Baucells, born in Sant Julià de Vilatorta in 1982, is one of the founders of the Males Herbes publishing house. He has published the novels Crònica d’un delicte menor (L’Albí, 2012), Afores (Edicions de 1984, 2017), Estigmes (Edicions de 1984, 2019) and L’endemà de la teràpia (Edicions de 1984, 2020), the poetry collection Òsties (AdiA Edicions, 2017) and an essay on the Catalan literary canon, Inventari d’afinitats (Periscopi, 2023), as well as a handful of short stories and articles found in various publications. He also writes lyrics and sings with bands including Daltabaix, Matagalls and FP.

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Music and literature, an invincible dance couple

Marta Orriols

Invitado de Honor

Marta Orriols lives in Barcelona. She trained as an art historian and has also worked in film scriptwriting. She contributes regularly to various magazines and newspapers. A keen admirer of Anglo‑Saxon literature, she oversaw the Spanish-language edition of the short‑story anthology by Edna O’Brien The Love Object (Objeto de amor, Lumen, 2018). She made her début with Lumen through the short‑story collection Anatomía de las distancias cortas (Anatomy of Short Distances) (2017), which had already been published in Catalan in 2016 and was met with accolades. Within less than a month, it became a best‑seller and was included among the recommended Christmas reads, and Granta magazine selected one of her stories for its Spanish‑language edition. Her first novel, Learning to Talk to Plants (Lumen, 2018 [English publication: Pushkin Press, 2020]), was awarded the Òmnium Prize for the best Catalan‑language novel of 2018 and the L’Illa dels Llibres Prize, and has been translated into eleven languages. Dulce introducción al caos (Sweet Introduction to Chaos) is her most recent novel.

Other activities involving the participant:

Reading and writing in times of war