Writer, researcher, editor and essayist, whose work focuses on the study of Catalan publishing houses and censorship.
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Thursday 23 October, 11.00 - 14.00
Miquel Cabal, Míriam Cano, Yannick Garcia, Guillem-Jordi Graells, Gemma Lienas, Mercedes Morán, Sebastià Portell, Maria Sevilla and Mireia Sopena
Mireia Sopena holds a PhD in Catalan Philology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, with the thesis La Selecta, centre de l’edició i de la vida literària (1943-1962) [La Selecta, Centre of Publishing and Literary Life (1943-1962)], awarded the IEC Prize from the Philology Section Lluís Nicolau d’Olwer in 2022. She began her career in the publishing industry in 1997, working at Larousse, Enciclopèdia Catalana and Grup 62. From 2005 to 2007 she worked as a lecturer in Catalan at the University of Saint-Denis (Paris VIII). Since 2009, she has worked with Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, where she is currently the head of the Publishing and Production Department.
Sopena is also the author of several monographs, including Editar la memòria. L’etapa resistent de Pòrtic (1963-1976) [Publishing Memory: Pòrtic’s Resistant Era (1963-1976)] (2006); Josep Pedreira, un editor en terra de naufragis. Els Llibres de l’Óssa Menor (1949-1963) [Josep Pedreira, Editor in a Land of Shipwrecks: The Books by l’Óssa Menor (1949-1963)] (2011), a work that earned her the Carles Rahola Prize for non-fiction. Recently, she published El somni més ambiciós. L’Editorial Selecta i la recuperació de lectors [The Most Ambitious Dream: Editorial Selecta and Gaining Back Readers] (Editorial Afers, 2025), about a publishing house that was essential to the survival of Catalan literature during the Franco regime.
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