2022 Edition - Montserrat Roig & Carme Montoriol Grants

 

MONTSERRAT ROIG GRANT

 

Jaume Benavente (Barcelona, ​​1958). Writer. His work revolves around the idea of ​​conflict, travel and reflection from the landscape. With twenty books published, the novels Nocturn de Portbou (Rosa dels Vents, 2003 and La Temerària, 2014), Llums a la costa (Columna, 2007, Ciutat de Tarragona Pin i Soler Prize), L’home que llegia Miquel Strogoff (Més Llibres, 2018) and Somnis de Valparaíso (Bromera, 2020, Valencia Prize for Narrative), as well as the travel books Viatge d’hivern a Madeira (Pagès Editors 2002, Lleida Prize for Narrative) and Dietari de Porto (Perifèric Edicions, 2011, Benvingut Oliver Prize for Narrative). Some of his books have been translated into Spanish and Italian. He has written articles for various magazines, led reading clubs and writing workshops, and has occasionally collaborated as a screenwriter on the tv program Víbria on Canal 33. He is currently a professor of creative writing at the Escola d’Escriptura de Catalunya (ESEC). He has a degree in Fine Arts, specializing in painting.

 

 

Alba Dalmau. Born in 1987 in Cardedeu, she has a degree in Audiovisual Communication and a master's degree in Literary Creation from the Pompeu Fabra University. In 2011, she published her first novel, Vonlenska, Recvll Prize. She is also the co-author of three artist books that combine literature and photography: On només hi havia un far, Estrena and CU(B)A. She lived in New York, where she wrote the novel Bategant (Cossetània, 2015, Vila de l’Ametlla de Mar Prize 2015), and the collection of short stories Estàndards (Angle, 2017, XXVIII Vila d’Ascó Literary Prize). In 2019, she published El camí dels esbarzers (Angle), a novel that was very well received by critics and with several editions, and in 2020 she made her debut in children's literature with Capgirat (Bindi Books), an album illustrated by Cinta Vidal. She is currently a professor of creative writing at the Laboratori de Lletres in Barcelona. In 2021, she published her latest novel Amor i no with Angle Editorial.

 

 

 

Raquel Pena Martínez (Barcelona, 1985). Graduated in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona. Since then, she coordinates the Cafè Filosòfic Pensa along with Sara Alier and Àngel Tamayo, with whom she develops a space for dialogue between thought and city in the La Central bookshop. She is a professor at Catalan public high schools and has given several philosophy seminars at the Fundació Universitària Martí l’Humà. In 2021, she won the VI Francesc Garriga Prize for poetry, published by Adia Edicions, LaBreu Edicions, Edicions del Buc and Cafè Central. She is currently collaborating with Joana Dark, a sound project that aims to reflect on the rural roots of our customs.

 

  

Mario Hinojos (Mazatlán, Mexico, 1982) has a degree in Communication Sciences and a Master's degree in Historical Culture and Communication. He has published the novels Animal doméstico (Caballo de Troya, 2017) and Round de sombra, V Valladolid de las Letras México National Prize for Novel (Horson, 2009). He has worked as a cultural journalist and is currently in charge of the content area of ​​the cultural management company Trànsit Projectes, in Barcelona, ​​where he has lived since 2007. He is a professor in the Master's in management of cultural institutions and companies at the University of Barcelona. Furthermore, he also coordinates the curatorial project of #plantauno, a cultural research centre based in Hospitalet de Llobregat. He collaborated in the i+C+I program of the Lab del CCCB (2011) and in the coordination of Sebaldiana, the magazine of the exhibition Las Variaciones Sebald (Kosmopolis16). Finalist of the Eñe Harvest Prize 2018 with the story Cosas mudas. He is part of the selection for the 8^th MACBA Independent Studies Program.

 

 

Guillem Carabí. Architect (1996, UPC) and Ph.D. architect (2012, UIC) with the thesis La reforma de la casa Bofarull (1913-1933), de Josep M. Jujol. Transformacions simultànies, awarded the 2015 UIC Extraordinary Doctorate Prize. Associate professor in the Department of Theory and History of Architecture and Communication Techniques (THATC) at the ETSAB-UPC. He received ex-aequo the Literature Archives Series ETSAB Prize for his work Estranyaments (2020). Deputy curator of the Pavelló de Catalunya Biennale di Architettura di Venezia Eventi collaterali (2014); curator of the exhibition Modernitat(s). Arquitectura a Barcelona 1924-1975 (Roca Barcelona Gallery, 2015), and Maquetes d’Arquitectura Commemorativa i Funerària del segle XX (Museu Gavà, 2019; with Marta Faura). Author of two books on the architect Josep M. Jujol.

 

 

Xita Rubert (Barcelona, 1996) is a writer. She is pursuing her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Princeton University, where she teaches classes on the relationships between literature, philosophy and medicine. She graduated in Philosophy from the University of Warwick, after stays at universities such as the Sorbonne. She has received awards such as the Ánxel Casal, in the theatre category, or the Short Story Prize from the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, and has been a finalist for the Ana María Matute Short Story Prize. Her short stories have appeared in collective volumes, and she has published the novel Mis días con los Kopp (Anagrama).

 

 

Irene Pujadas i Farré (Sant Just Desvern, 1990) worked for five years in the magazine Butxaca and has written for media such as Ara Llegim, La Llança and La Lectora. She is one of the founders of the magazine Branca. She has written the collection of short stories Els desperfectes (Documenta 2020 Prize ex-aequo, L'Altra Editorial) and is currently working at Angle Editorial.

 

 

 

Albert Chamorro (1996). Trained in Dramatic Art in the specialty of Scenography at the Institut del Teatre. At the same time, he took courses in drama, acting and design in different places such as the Sala Beckett or the Fundació RCR Arquitectes. In 2020, he created and directed the stage space Urati laboratori, where he works creating artistic proposals in collaboration with spaces such as the TNT Festival, the Teatre Lliure, El Born – Centre de Cultura i Memòria or the Grec Festival. Winner of the “XI Artez Blai International Prize for Research on Performing Arts”, with the work Obskenographía, an essay on the concept of scenography applied to various fields beyond the theatre such as politics and technology. He is currently studying for a master's degree in "Philosophy for Contemporary Challenges" at the UOC.

 

Laia Viñas (Xerta, 1997) studied Journalism at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). She has worked in media such as SER Catalunya, Setmanari l'Ebre and Imagina Ràdio. Since February 2021, she has been one of the creators of the digital news site A Prop from the l’Ebre region. She won the Documenta 2020 Prize with her first novel Les Closques.

 

Bel Olid (Mataró, Maresme, 1977) writes, translates and teaches literature and creative writing. She maintains an intense activity as a translator to Catalan and, to a lesser extent, to Spanish, mainly for children’s literature and also for feminist literature for adults. She has translated from German, English, French, Italian and Spanish.

She became known in 2010 thanks to the Documenta Prize for the novel Una terra solitària, and to the Rovelló Prize for essays for her work Les heroïnes contrataquen. Models literaris contra l'universal masculí a la literatura infantil i juvenil. Two years later, she won the Roc Boronat Prize with La mala reputació, a collection of short stories that enjoys great acceptance among critics and the reading public. In 2016, she released a new collection of short stories, Vents més salvatges, published the illustrated album Gegantíssima and received the Apel·les Mestres Prize for children's literature with the work Viure amb la Hilda (i els seus inconvenients). In Vides aturades (2017) she recounts the testimony of people seeking refuge in Europe. In Feminisme de butxaca, kit de supervivència (2017), now in its ninth edition, she reflects on gender discrimination in our society. In 2018, she published her first book of poems, Ferida, udol, viatge, illa and in 2019 the essay Follem? De què (no) parlem quan parlem de sexualitats, and also the illustrated album Les bruixes d’Arlet. In 2020, she published the essay A contrapel, o per què trencar el cercle de depilació, submissió i autoodi. Her works have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Galician, and the essay A contrapel and the collection of short stories Vents més salvatges will soon be published in English.

She collaborates in numerous cultural media and the written press. She has chaired the European Council of Literary Translators’ Associations (CEATL - Conseil Européen des Associations de Traducteurs Littéraires, 2013-2015), and from March 2015 to March 2022 she chairs the Association of Catalan Language Writers (AELC).

 

 

Laura López Granell. She was born in Barcelona in May 1968, in the Poblenou district, where she lives. At the age of twelve, she wrote her first poem - and to this day. She studied Philology and has been a teacher at the Escola d’Escriptura de l’Ateneu Barcelonès since its foundation, and has been dedicated to writing training and literary advice for twenty-five years. Disseminator of poetry in schools and reading clubs, she promotes the activation of reading and writing it in various social spheres.

She has published Itineraris (Poesia Jove Generalitat de Catalunya Prize, 1993), La història del drac Xiulet (2008), and Forat (2014) and Coratge (Lectors de poesia Nollegiu Prize, 2020). She has also made her poems public in recitals, in the blog Jardins Verticals and in collective books: Women Writers in Catalan, Generació Horiginal.

 

 

Miglė Anušauskaitė. A graphic novel author and Judaica researcher, who has recently made her debut in writing crime fiction. Living in Vilnius, Lithuania, for almost 18 years, Miglė has contributed extensively to the city’s literary scene. Her graphic novels on semiotics and on Lithuanian historical personalities were awarded various literary prizes, she has translated several books from English and from Yiddish. Last year Miglė’s crime fiction radio play Pasitikėjimo žaidimas ("Game of Trust") premiered on the National Radio of Lithuania and got encouraging reviews. In response to the publishers’ expressing interest in her writing a full-lenght crime fiction novel, Miglė will be devoting her time in Montserrat Roig residency to the plot of the said novel.

 

 

Ronnie Scott is the author of a novel, The Adversary (Hamish Hamilton), which was shortlisted for a 2020 Queensland Literary Award and the 2021 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. He is also the author of a Penguin Special, Salad Days, and two books of nonfiction for the National Gallery of Victoria, as well as the editor of two anthologies. He teaches Creative Writing at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, where he is also a researcher on Folio: A New History of Australian Comics, a three-year project supported by the Australian Research Council Linkage Scheme that seeks to document stories of Australian comics since 1980. He is a two-time MacDowell Fellow and his second novel will be published in 2023.

 

 

Dimas Prychyslyy (Ukraine, 1992) holds a degree in Hispanic Philology from the University of Salamanca and a Master's in Creative Writing from the Complutense University of Madrid. He has published the poetry book Mudocinética (Ediciones Idea, 2010) and has been awarded the València Nova Prize in the category of poetry in Spanish by Molly House (Hiperión, 2017). He has participated in the anthologies Piel Fina, poesía joven española (Maremagnum, 2019) and De la intimidad (Renacimiento, 2019). In 2019, he was awarded the V Logroño Prize for Narrative for Young Writers for his book of short stories Tres en raya. In 2020, he published Con la frente marchita in the publishing house Dos Bigotes. During the 2016-2017 academic year, he received a scholarship from the Fundación Antonio Gala. He writes both poetry and prose, which considers different sides of the same coin, to approach issues such as identity, marginality or homoeroticism. In 2021, he was awarded the 25 Primaveras Prize for his book No hay gacelas en Finlandia by the publishing house Espasa and Ámbito Cultural. His most recent publications are the book of poems La cirugía del escombro by the Malaga publishing house El toro celeste and the translation Canciones de Alejandría by Mijaíl Kuzmín (Visor, 2022).

 

Núria Bendicho Giró (Barcelona, 1995) has a degree in Philosophy. Largely self-taught, she spent her youth traveling and reading in libraries. Terres mortes is her first novel.

 

 

 

Núria Naval was born in Barcelona and studied Audiovisual Communication at Ramon Llull University, where she specialized in screenwriting. From there she began her career in the world of narrative, where she has published several short stories. Years later, and as a result of her motherhood, she began writing children's stories. She has published five of them and in this genre, she has also won several literary competitions such as Pere Verdaguer 2021 Prize, in Perpignan. In addition to writing, she has also taught creative writing and children’s storytelling workshops at the Escola de Lletres de Tarragona, libraries and schools.

She currently lives in Reus and you can follow her literary career through her blog www.nurianaval.com and her social networks @nurianaval.

 

 

David Uclés (Úbeda, 1990) is a writer, musician, illustrator and translator. In 2019, he received the Complutense Prize for Literature for El llanto del león, and in 2020 he published Emilio y Octubre (Dos Bigotes) in magical realism. He also won the Cristina Tomi Narrative Prize and the X Pedro Zarco Prize. His play El llanto del león will be shown in 2022 at the Frankfurt Book Fair, and it had a theatrical adaptation. He has written for Actúa and Esquire in the press. As a musician he plays the harp, accordion and guitar; he has made theatre and documentary music (Tabacalera, CNRS, LesGaiCineMad). His pictorial work is in the gallery Singulart. As a Spanish teacher he has worked in Germany, Switzerland and France. He currently resides in the Alps, where he has written his second novel in French.

 

Alfonso Barguñó Viana (Barcelona, ​​1980). He has been a pizza delivery man, a warehouse assistant, a wedding disc jockey, a waiter, a goldsmith, a proofreader of the Universal newspaper, a translator of Joseph Conrad, Flaubert and Rimbaud, a gastronomic guide, journalist, columnist and teacher. Apparently, it's hard for him to keep a job. Graduated in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, he also obtained a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Romance Philology. He was part of the rock band Ada Van, recorded with the producer of The Strokes and toured Argentina. He has published the novel Una historia de Anar Khan, about a Pakistani from the Raval district, and the essay El suscitador, about the poet Francis Ponge. But most of all, he likes to go around saying he's a karateka.

 

  

Gerard Cisneros (Manresa, 1989). He has a degree in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona and a master's degree in Advanced Studies in Catalan Language and Literature. He works as a teacher. He has published the books of poems D'epitalami, res (Meteora, 2017; Cadaqués Prize to Rosa Leveroni) and Agre (El Gall Editor, 2022), the plaquette “Bolets” (Gnurf, 2012) and the translations Poeta de les Cendres, by Pasolini (Edicions Poncianes, 2015) and the selection of poems “Milestones, 13”, by Allen Ginsberg (Edicions Poncianes, 2015). Currently, he is working on a doctoral thesis on Baroque poetry.

 

 

Miguel Blasco Marqués. Graduated in Audiovisual Communication and Journalism. Master in Film Analysis and Criticism. He currently combines writing with teaching and works as a reader and tutor for various publishing houses in Spain and Latin America.

His first novel, Hollywood, La Alpujarra (Che Books, 2020) is now in its second edition, while he hopes that his next text, Sausalito/Seducción, will be published soon.

 

 

 

CARME MONTORIOL GRANT

  

Ferran Dordal. He has presented various shows and performances, such as To the Happy Few (Temporada Alta, 2006), Memòries dels temps de la immaduresa (Teatre Lliure, 2007), M.A.D. (Mutual Assured Destruction) with Àlex Serrano (Teatre Lliure, 2011), autopsicografia (Festival PNRM, 2011), La gran mentira (Grec Festival, 2016) or Telepatisches Café with Alexander Manuiloff (Rodeo München, 2016). He collaborates with the Agrupación Señor Serrano, as co-creator of his shows. He has also worked with Àlex Rigola, Carlota Subirós, Alícia Gorina and Sílvia Delagneau, and since 2016 he has been a professor in the dramaturgy department of the Institut del Teatre.

 

 

Eva Hibernia. She has a degree in the specialty of Dramaturgy at the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático in Madrid, and a PhD in Humanities at Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Her texts and her productions have been seen in places such as the Teatro Español, Teatro Nacional de Cataluña, Sala Beckett, Sala Cuarta Pared and in different festivals and national and international stages. Her works have been translated into German, English, French, Greek, Portuguese, Italian and Catalan. In addition to her original texts, she has worked on the dramaturgies and versions of classic texts, among which stands out The Miser by Molière for theatre of objects, a show that has continued to tour uninterruptedly for 17 years collecting awards and mentions.

 

  

Pablo Macho Otero. Miguel Hernández International Novel Prize for Poetry 2018 for his first collection of poems, ZOE. He graduated in Hispanic Philology from Universidad de Barcelona and trained as an actor at the Estudio Nancy Tuñón in Barcelona and at the École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. He began his dramaturgical training at the Obrador de la Sala Beckett. His texts include Esquerdes (Sala Beckett, 2014), La Trinxera (Sala Flyhard, 2017), Enterrando a Dodot (La Gleva, 2021) and Loco Amoris (Teatre Tantarantana, 2021).

 

 

Lucas Ubach. Graduated in Psychology from the UAB and in Illustration from the Escola Massana. He graduated from the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona, ​​specializing in Directing and Dramaturgy. He also trained in the Obrador de la Sala Beckett. He is the author of plays such as Cortés Ordena (dramatized reading at Sala Beckett, 2014); Polvo somos (2015); Qualsevol nit (Sala Roja. Barcelona, ​​2017); or Ficciones (Finzioni) (Paolo Grassi, Milà, 2017), among others. He has been the director of several theatrical productions as Ficciones (Paolo Grassi, Milà, 2017), Cucuts (Teatrul Novo, Bucarest, 2019) and Tripalium (reading in Sala Beckett, 2019). Dramaturgist in Spiritual Boyfriends of Núria Guiu (Festival Grec 2020). This year presents, with his studio LΔST, Pygmalion's Death [one room] in Fundació Joan Brossa - Centre de les Arts Lliures.