Anna Maria Villalonga (Barcelona, 1959). A Catalan and Hispanic Philology graduate, she has taught at the UB and is a writer, researcher, literature, film critic, translator, and literary activist. She has published a number of short stories in collective volumes, as well as three novels: La dona de Gris (2014, translated into Spanish and Italian), El somriure de Darwin (2017, translated into Spanish), and Els dits dels arbres (2020). In 2018 she published the collection of short stories Contes per a les nits de luna plena (Tales for full moon nights), which is about to be translated into Italian. Also in 2018, she was appointed Commissioner for the Pedrolo Year in the centenary year of his birth. She is currently the director of the crime novel festival Tiana Negra.
