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:

The past that goes with us

Maria Canelles

Invitado de Honor

Maria Canelles Trabal, born in Barcelona in 1988, has always been connected to the world of culture, specifically to literature and the visual arts, but also to theatre. She works in cultural management and, since December 2021, has been the co-director of the Fundació Joan Brossa – Centre de les Arts Lliures, a space focused on experimental poetry and projects that straddle the visual arts and live arts. She studied humanities, literary theory and comparative literature, in addition to earning a master’s degree in theatre studies. In 2016 she and Adrià Aubert co-wrote the theatrical adaptation of the Pere Calders novel Ronda naval sota la boira, earning them a nomination for the Catalan Critics’ Award for Best Adaptation. Texts of hers have appeared in fiction anthologies (Grand Hotel, Univers 2022) and group dramatised readings (Estar bé, a reading led by Glòria Balañà at the Sala Beckett, 2017). In September 2022, she published her first novel, Contra la nostàlgia, with Angle Editorial (2 editions). This novel was shortlisted for the Finestres Award for Catalan Fiction in the same year.

Other activities involving the participant:

Of families, happy and unhappy in their own way
Tribute to Joan Brossa. Poetry, politics, and nonconformity

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:

Comedy: How hard is it to write?

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