Saturday 25 October, 12.30 - 13.45
María Reimóndez, Sara Guerrero, and Blanca Llum Vidal
Fictions and Dissent
A writer, philologist, and social worker, hers is one of the most unique voices in contemporary Catalan literature. She was awarded the 2024 Carles Riba Prize for the work Tan bonica i tan tirana [Such a Lovely Tyrant] (Proa, 2025).
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Saturday 25 October, 12.30 - 13.45
Fictions and Dissent
Blanca Llum Vidal has studied social work and Catalan Language and Literature and holds a Master’s degree in Contemporary Thought. She combines her work in supported housing for people with functional diversity with writing poetry, fiction, and essays. Her work includes several collections of poems such as La cabra que hi havia [The Goat that Was There] (Documenta Balear, 2009), Nosaltres i tu [Us and You] (Documenta Balear, 2011), Homes i ocells [Men and Birds] (Club Editor, 2012), Punyetera flor [Darned Flower] (LaBreu Edicions, 2014), Aquest amor que no és u [This Love That Is Not One] (Ultramarinos Editorial, 2018, bilingual Catalan-Spanish) and Amor a la brega [Love in the Fray] (Pagès Editors, 2018). Her most recent book is Tan bonica i tan tirana [Such a Lovely Tyrant] (Proa, 2025), winner of the Carles Riba Poetry Prize 2024, a work that explores love, heartbreak, desire, and pain.
She is also the author of the epistolary novel La princesa sou Vós [The Princess Is You] (Club Editor, 2022) and the essay No cometràs adulteri [Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery] (Fragmenta Editorial, 2024), part of the “10 Commandments” series. In addition, she has edited works by Mercè Rodoreda and Víctor Català, compiled an anthology of texts by Maria Aurèlia Capmany, and translated Marguerite Duras.