New Catalan Fiction 2019 Contents

Foreword 3

To my Scottish Friend, Maria Barbal 4 Mother, Ada Castells 6 On Impure Ground, Melcior Comes 8 Learning to Talk to Plants, Marta Orriols 10 The Art of Wearing a Trench Coat, Sergi Pàmies 12 The Angels are Watching Me, Marc Pastor 14 Ariel and the Bodies, Sebastià Portell 16 Pursuit, Toni Sala 18 When I Sing the Mountain Dances, Irene Solà 20 Satellites, Elisenda Solsona 22

Grants, Fellowship and Other Services 24

Literature and the Humanities Team 26

Foreign Offices 27 Foreword

This is an outstanding moment for Catalan literature. An exceptionally fine tradition, the seductiveness of modernity and a curiosity about other literatures are all to be found amongst its current strengths, which are further bolstered by a well-established and vibrant publishing industry and the efficient work of literary agents.

One of the goals of the Institut Ramon Llull, as the public institution responsible for broadening the reach of Catalan language and culture, is to support authors, translators, publishers and literary agents with the aim of ensuring that Catalan literature is translated, published and read abroad.

This booklet presents a selection of new voices of Catalan Fiction that touch on a range of different subjects, realities, and imagined worlds and reflect the richness and the power of Catalan literature today.

We trust you will find our authors engaging and our services valuable.

Department of Literature and the Humanities Institut Ramon Llull

3 Maria Barbal A wartime friendship bookends this poignant story of two men’s lives and the strength of the seemingly To my Scottish Friend arbitrary tie that binds them A l’amic escocès

A friendship is forged in dire conditions: a Maria Barbal debuted with her now classic novel Stone in a campaign hospital during the Spanish Civil Landslide, beginning the series she is best known for, all set in her War. Benet, a Republican soldier, and George, native Pallars, and of which this is the most recent installment. a Scottish member of the Lincoln Brigade, can Her body of work also includes other novels and volumes of barely communicate in words yet the two young short stories, writing for children, and theater. Over the years she men devastated by violence form a strong bond has been honored with the 1984 Joaquim Ruyra Prize, the 1985 nonetheless. Upon parting Benet gifts George Crexells Prize, the 1992 Catalan Critics’ Prize, and the 1993 National with a drawing of a tree, inscribed “to my Scottish Literature Prize, among many others. friend.” After Franco’s death, George seeks out his friend and finds that the roots of the tree had grown inside both of them, despite the passage of SELECTED WORKS Carrer Bolívia Rimonim Publishers time. (Bolívia Street) (Hebrew) Inspired by the writings of a real soldier, Barbal FICTION Edicions 62, 1999 Harmattan Kiadó focuses on Benet’s hard life in the bucolic Pallars En la pell de l’altre Rights sold to: (Hungarian) region. His story is told through the eyes of several (In the Other One’s Skin) El Aleph (Spanish) Marco&Marcos (Italian) narrators: his family, his acquaintances, his vivid Columna, 2014 Antolog (Macedonian) Wydawnictwo Marginesy letters and his Scottish friend. When the two men Columna, 2019 Rights sold to: Càmfora (Polish) meet again and juxtapose their strikingly divergent 320 pages Austral (Spanish) (Camphor) experiences four decades later, they come to the La Magrana, 1992 Difel (Portuguese) RIGHTS SOLD TO: Meronia (Romanian) conclusion that key moments keep us tied to the Emma Rights sold to: Arhipelag Publishing past as well as to the future, and perhaps love is Destino (Spanish) (Emma) Transit Buchverlag (Serbian) merely our desire to live despite it all. Columna, 2008 FOREIGN RIGHTS CONTACT: (German) Studentska Zalozba Sandra Bruna Agencia Literaria Rights sold to: Difel (Portuguese) (Slovenian) Sandra Bruna Transit Buchverlag Lumen (Spanish) Planeta (Spanish) [email protected] (German) Nilsson förlag (Swedish) El Aleph (Spanish) Pedra de tartera Odem Yayincilik (Stone in a Landslide) (Turkish) País íntim Laia, 1985 (An Intimate Country) Rights sold to: Columna, 2005 A. W. Bruna Uitgevers Rights sold to: (Dutch) Transit Buchverlag Peirene Press (World (German) English) Študentska založba litera Tinta Blava (French) (Slovenian) Transit Buchverlag Destino (Spanish) (German) 4 5 Ada Castells It’s true what they say: you can only have one mother, even if you spend most of your life wishing for a Mother different one Mare

A complex portrait of a Protestant family in 20th- Ada Castells is an accomplished journalist in print and television, century Barcelona, and the dramatic, explosive, creative writing instructor, and author of several novels, including difficult mother at its center: Raquel—her the winner of the 2012 Sant Joan Unnim Prize. Her recent father’s favorite triplet—lives through the war, publications also include a picture book about the last fishermen even being sent to southern France to escape the left in Barcelona, and a novella based on the Frankenstein myth. bombing, and the long dictatorship, marries a doctor and plays out a role of thwarted creativity and conflicted motherhood for her own three SELECTED WORKS Mirada daughters. The narrator Sara, now a mother (The Gaze) herself, looks back on their relationship through FICTION Empúries, 2001 the lens of Raquel’s aging and death in this one- La primavera pendent Rights sold to: sided conversation. (The Awaiting Spring) Anagrama (Spanish) Raquel’s true voice melds with the words in her Comanegra, 2018 autobiography, a small golden notebook Sara only El dit de l'àngel reads after she’s gone. It stands as testament to the Pura sang (The Angel’s Finger) love she was unable to express when alive, leaving (Pure Blood) Empúries, 1998 her daughters to often question whether her Edicions 62, 2012 La Campana, 2019 Rights sold to: actions were the result of stupidity or of outright Anagrama (Spanish) cruelty. As Raquel succumbs to frailty, Sara is 232 pages Tota la vida freed to feel compassion for her, to find her own (Throughout Life) maternal reflection in her, and, ultimately, to see RIGHTS SOLD TO: Empúries, 2005 Navona (Spanish) her mother for who she was. Rights sold to: FOREIGN RIGHTS CONTACT: Berlin Verlag (German) Silvia Bastos Agencia Literaria Edhasa (Spanish) Pau Centellas [email protected] La crida del mar (The Call of the Sea) Mòbil Books, 2002

6 7 Melcior Comes In this deft tale of fathers and sons, a young writer is pulled into an affluent family tree whose roots stretch On Impure Ground deep into an island’s sordid past Sobre la terra impura

A struggling writer is drawn back to his native Melcior Comes has published seven novels before the age of forty, Majorca when he’s hired to compose the memoirs which have earned him numerous awards including the 2004 of Dora Bonnín, a recently deceased singer Documenta Prize, the 2008 Josep Pla Prize, and the 2014 Sant Joan and mother of his childhood best friend Leo, Prize. This most recent book has already won the Serra d’Or Prize whom he hasn’t seen in years. Leo’s father Higini and the Crexells Prize, and is being hailed as “the great Majorcan Verdera is heir to the family shoe business, and novel.” the reigning patriarch of this extremely wealthy clan. Delving into the source material—Dora’s diaries—the writer soon discovers hints of some SELECTED WORKS L’estupor que us espera dark secrets, and loses all impartiality when he (The Stupor that Awaits gets involved with Leo’s stepsister. Leo’s wife FICTION You) disappears on their wedding night, and Leo’s Hotel Indira Empúries, 2005 theory is that his father has kidnapped his bride. (Indira Hotel) Then Dora’s diaries vanish as well; again Leo Edicions 62, 2014 blames Higini. As violent, criminal links to the Verdera family Viatge al centre de la are exposed, Leo’s accusations start to seem less Terra far-fetched, and the narration becomes much less Proa, 2018 (Voyage to the Center of reliable, creating possible scenarios and mixing 528 pages the Earth) time periods. How far have the Verderas gone to Columna, 2010 maintain the power of their empire, and how far RIGHTS SOLD TO: are they willing to go? Navona (Spanish) La batalla de Walter Stamm FOREIGN RIGHTS CONTACT: (Walter Stamm’s Battle) Planeta Destino, 2008 Maria Juncosa [email protected] El llibre dels plaers immensos (The Book of Immense Pleasures) Editorial Moll, 2007

8 9 Marta Orriols A portrait of how mortality defines our lives through one woman’s struggle to ride the waves of grief with Learning to Talk to Plants candor, grace, and humor Aprendre a parlar amb les plantes

Paula Cid is a reserved, hard-nosed NICU Marta Orriols is emerging as one of finest of the recent fine crop doctor in her early forties, who’s been engaged of female prose stylists from Catalonia. Also the author of a 2016 to Mauro for so long she doesn’t even wear the short story collection, she studied creative writing at the Barcelona ring anymore. Their staid relationship ends Athenaeum. This is her debut novel, which sold to several languages abruptly when he announces that he leaving even before its original Catalan publication appeared and earned her for another woman. A few hours later, he’s her the Òmnium Award for Best Novel of 2018. killed when his bicycle is slammed by a car. The shock of her not-exactly widowhood is refracted through the latent grief over her mother’s death SELECTED WORKS decades earlier. Orriols’ finely hewn prose is infused with FICTION frank emotion and at times staggering bluntness, Anatomia de les distàncies curtes acknowledging the coexistence of true grief with (The Anatomy of Short Distances) true life: true anger, true desire, and true relief. Edicions del Periscopi, 2016 Paula's life is cleaved in two; her self-image and Rights sold to: way of being in the world are irrevocably changed Tesha Neshamot (Hebrew) by Mauro's death, forcing her to grapple with Edicions del Periscopi, 2018 Lumen (Spanish) numbness, longing, passion, solitude, her evolving 256 pages relationship with her aging widower father, other people’s expectations, and—most importantly— RIGHTS SOLD TO: her own. United Sky Publishers (Simplified Chinese) Prometheus (Dutch) Pushkin Press (World English) Seuil (French) DTV (German) Hakursa/Modan (Hebrew) Ponte alle Grazie (Italian) Sonia Draga (Polish) Dom Quixote (Portuguese) Lumen (Spanish)

FOREIGN RIGHTS CONTACT: SalmaiaLit Bernat Fiol [email protected]

10 11 Sergi Pàmies A baker’s dozen of short stories that hinge on three types of love: between couples, and towards one’s The Art of Wearing parents, and one’s children a Trench Coat L’art de portar gavardina

This slim, intimate volume of thirteen stories Sergi Pàmies is a very regular presence in newspapers, radio, and explores paternal, filial, and spousal love (and television. Born in French exile, he is the author of three novels disappointment, and nostalgia, and panic) but best known for his short story collections. His previous literary through a narrator who bemoans his inability to awards include the 2007 City of Barcelona Prize and this eighth wear a trench coat well, and who finally accuses volume of stories has already earned him both the 2019 Catalan himself of being “pusillanimous.” Yet in these Critics’ Prize and the 2019 Serra d’Or. encounters and these endings, in these details and these feelings, a compassionate, small portrait of a life emerges. SELECTED WORKS Quaderns Crema, 2006 Rights sold to: Terse, droll, sometimes absurd but always Rights sold to: Jacqueline Chambon lucid, Pàmies casts his gaze on the urge to write FICTION Txalaparta (Basque) (French) as seen through his mother’s final days; on his Cançons d’amor i pluja Jacqueline Chambon Frankfurter Verlag teenage fantasy that his father was actually Jorge (Songs of Love and Rain) (French) (German) Semprún; and on situations such as adopting Quaderns Crema, 2013 Xerais (Galician) Anagrama (Spanish) a dog to staunch a failing marriage, or a father Rights sold to: Frankfurter Verlag L’instint asked to play the part of a corpse in his son’s Actes Sud (French) (German) Quaderns Crema, 2018 (Instinct) short film. In this phantasmagoria of failure and Papyros Publishing Group Papyros Publishing Group 152 pages Quaderns Crema, 1992 loss, Pàmies confronts us—drawing us in with (Greek) (Greek) his use of the second person address—with the Anagrama (Spanish) Donzelli (Italian) Rights sold to: omnipresence of well-intentioned lies despite RIGHTS SOLD TO: Anagrama (Spanish) Anagrama (Spanish) which it may be impossible to ever make anyone Jacqueline Chambon (French) La bicicleta estàtica Calvaria Publishing else happy. Anagrama (Spanish) (The Exercice Bike) L’últim llibre de Sergi Group (Ukrainian) Quaderns Crema, 2010 Pàmies FOREIGN RIGHTS CONTACT: (Sergi Pàmies’ Latest T’hauria de caure la cara Rights sold to: Casanovas & Lynch Literary Book) de vergonya Ciela (Bulgarian) Agency Quaderns Crema, 2000 (You Should Be Ashamed Jacqueline Chambon María Lynch of Yourself) (French) Rights sold to: [email protected] Quaderns Crema, 1986 Michalis Sideris (Greek) Jacqueline Chambon Anagrama (Spanish) (French) Rights sold to: Anagrama (Spanish) Jacqueline Chambon Si menges una llimona (French) sense fer ganyotes Sentimental Anagrama (Spanish) (If You Eat a Lemon (Sentimental) Without Wincing) Quaderns Crema, 1996 12 13 Marc Pastor A serial killer stalks barcelona in a contemporary thriller where even the detective is not quite what he The Angels are seems Watching Me Els àngels em miren

Two teenage girls are found dead in a squat in Marc Pastor is unique in Catalan literature for his embrace of a the neighborhood of Sant Andreu with signs variety of genres, time periods, and locations, while always building pointing to ritual murder. On the case is Agent on his highly particular multiverse. Winner of the inaugural Crims Abraham Corvo, a half-Equatorial Guinean and de Tinta Prize for his widely translated La mala dona, he recently half-Catalan wise-cracking, prog-rock and genre had his first film adaptation with The Year of the Plague. He works fiction fan. Corvo also happens to be possessed as a criminologist for the Catalan Police. by a demon, giving him certain powers that help his investigations along with a powerful thirst for blood that has him scrounging around the SELECTED WORKS La mala dona morgue looking for organs to consume. (Barcelona Shadows) The bodies pile up as every suspect is FICTION La Magrana, 2008 found dead and, in the shaky new Republic Farishta Rights sold to: created by Catalonia’s unilateral declaration of (Farishta) Vestígio (Brazilian) independence, the police force can’t afford any Amsterdam / Ara Llibres, 2017 Host (Czech) further deterioration of the public’s confidence. Rights sold to: Pushkin Press (World English) The alternate political backdrop—the Jonbar Catedral (Spanish) Actes Sud (French) hinge: October 4th, 2017—and paranormal Lübbe (German) features showcase an explicit vindication of the Bioko Libri Kiado (Hungarian) group effort that is police work and a fascinatingly Amsterdam/Ara Llibres, 2019 Neri Pozza (Italian) 440 pages (Bioko) nuanced, hyperrealistic look into the nitty gritty Amsterdam / Ara Llibres, 2013 Tokyo Sogensha (Japanese) of how crimes are solved. Nike Books (Korean) FOREIGN RIGHTS CONTACT: Rights sold to: Czarna Owca (Polish) Libri Kiado (Hungarian) The Ella Sher Literary Agency TopSeller (Portuguese) Neri Pozza (Italian) Ella Sher RBA (Spanish) Bellona (Polish) [email protected] Esen Kitap (Turkish) Planeta (Spanish)

L’any de la plaga (The Year of the Plague) Amsterdam / Ara Llibres, 2010 Rights sold to: RBA (Spanish)

14 15 Sebastià Portell Who is Ariel? Ariel defies description, embodies the indescribable, Ariel challenges a rule whose existence Ariel and the Bodies no one can explain. Ariel i els cossos

Ariel is the fascinatingly elusive character at the Sebastià Portell’s first novel won him the 2016 Time Out Barcelona heart of this diptych, a character who may or Prize for Creator of the Year. He is also the author of a book of may not exist. Ariel is filtered here through two stories, and several plays, including the winner of the 2013 City of bodies, two lovers: desperate, young Eugeni, who’s Badalona Theater Award, a biography of Antònia Vicens, as well as convinced Ariel is a man; and the struggling the editor of an anthology of Catalan LGBTQ poetry. He has been a novelist David, just as sure Ariel is a woman. writer resident at Art Omi Residency in NYC. Although both men project their desires onto him/her, it becomes clear that Ariel refuses to be pigeonholed. SELECTED WORKS POETRY Despite the binary nature inherent to a diptych, Amors sense casa. Portell crafts a work whose form is highly FICTION Poesia LGBTQ catalana. consistent with its theme of multiplicity: told in a RISC. Antologia de (Editor) series of psychiatric sessions, a madman’s journal, textos: Rata_ (Homeless Loves. Catalan poetic descriptive attempts, “soul footnotes”, (Anthology of Texts: Rata) LGBTQ Poetry) emails, letters never sent, drafts of a novel that Rata, 2017 Angle Editorial, 2018 reads like a dark fairy tale, and plenty of blank spaces. These varied textual articulations confuse, El dia que va morir confide, converge, and contradict, combining to Empúries, 2019 David Bowie create a compelling composite character who—it 272 pages (The Day David Bowie turns out—is not so easily controlled. Died) RIGHTS SOLD TO: LaBreu Edicions, 2016 Dos Bigotes (Spanish) La recerca del flamenc FOREIGN RIGHTS CONTACT: (with Jaume C. Pons Planeta Alorda and Joan Todó) Maria Juncosa (In Search of the [email protected] Flamingo) LaBreu Edicions, 2015

16 17 Toni Sala “I went out with a guy for a year, until I found out he’d killed his wife” is the opening line of this unnerving Pursuit psychological portrait of violence Persecució

Albert Jordi had a knowledge of the world that Toni Sala studied Catalan Language and Literature at the University fascinated Èlia. She met him on a dating site of Girona, and is a professor of literature at the Pompeu Fabra and thought he was the one, until his homicidal University in Barcelona. His prolific body of work, both prose and revelation led her to abruptly show him the non-fiction, has earned him the Documenta Prize, the Catalan door. His reaction is to leave town and erase her Critics’ Prize, the City of Barcelona Prize, the Catalan National number from his phone. However, a few days later Literature Prize, among others. she finds herself calling him again, obsessively, and pursues him to the point of breaking into his apartment. SELECTED WORKS Pere Marín Petita crònica d'un This bold, uncompromising novel filled with (Pere Marín) professor a secundària death—real and envisaged—is told in densely FICTION Edicions 62, 1998 (Brief Chronicle of spiraling prose by four competing first-person Els nois a Secondary School narrators: two women and two men. Set in the (The Boys) NON FICTION Teacher) Edicions 62, 2001 murky political scenario of 2017, it emphasizes the L’Altra, 2014 Autoestop irrationality and gratuitousness of the violence Rights sold to: (Hitchhiking) Rights sold to: that surrounds us, and explores the relationship Hena Com (Croatian) Edicions 62, 2007 Península (Spanish) between deaths that are imposed, chosen, or L’Altra, 2019 Two Lines Press (World fated. Ultimately, Pursuit is a reflection on the 344 pages English) Comelade, Casasses, possibility of forgiveness, the unknowable within Perejaume ourselves and others, and the moral implications RIGHTS SOLD TO: Provisionalitat (Comelade, Casasses, of comprehending evil. Two Lines Press (Temporariness) Perejaume) (North America & Canada) Empúries, 2012 Edicions 62, 2006

FOREIGN RIGHTS CONTACT: Marina Quatre dies a l’Àfrica MB Agencia Literaria on behalf (Marina) (Four Days in Africa) of L’Altra Edicions 62, 2010 Edicions 62, 2005 Txell Torrent [email protected] Rodalies (Outskirts) Edicions 62, 2004 Rights sold to: A1 Verlag (German) El Aleph (Spanish)

18 19 Irene Solà A lyrical, evocative novel that creates a cosmos of the Pyrenees, and opens up a breathtaking window for us When I Sing the onto it Mountain Dances Canto jo i la muntanya balla

A polyphony of voices—humans, yes, but also Irene Solà holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of clouds and mushrooms, a roe-deer and a pet Barcelona and a Master’s in Literature, Cinema and Visual Culture dog, water nymphs, witches, ghosts, even the from the University of Sussex. She has published a volume of mountains themselves—come together in this poems, recognized with the Amadeu Oller Prize, and her first novel luminous cant to our natural world and its eye- won the 2017 Documenta Prize. Her work has been exhibited at the piercing beauty, the fierce muscle of the seasons, Whitechapel Gallery (London), and the CCCB (Barcelona), among and an ode to words themselves, to the power of others. This book is the winner of the prestigious 2019 Anagrama poetry to highlight the constant coexistence of life Catalan Novel Award. and death. Within the constellation of human homes, a line of open-air poets is struck: first the father SELECTED WORKS 33 poetes de menys de 35. Edited by Josep with a bolt of lightning to the head, and then the Pedrals son, in a hunting accident twenty years later. This FICTION (33 Poets Under 35) rugged borderland between Camprodon and Els dics Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2017 Prats de Molló bears the scars of this violence (The Dams) and that of witch hunts and the civil war, but its L’Altra Editorial, 2017 Bèstia (Beast) stories and legends are resilient and transcend the Rights sold to: human life span. Solà, with a stunning command Galerada, 2012 Anagrama, 2019 Alto Pogo (Spanish: Argentina, Uruguay, of language, and a use of repetition that makes Perú, Chili and Colombia) Rights sold to: prose in verse, reminds us we are all animals, we 192 pages Shearsman Books (English) are all landscape, we are all spirits. POETRY Italic & Pequod (Italian) RIGHTS SOLD TO: Graywolf Press (World English) Wretched Strangers. Edited by Ágnes Blackie Edizioni (Italian) Lehóczky and J. T. Welsch Anagrama (Spanish) Anthology of 125 poets around the globe on migrants and refugees. FOREIGN RIGHTS CONTACT: Boiler House Press, June 2018. Indent Agency on behalf of Anagrama Mig segle de poesia catalana, del Maig Paula Canal del 68 al 2018. Anthology. [email protected] (50 Years of Catalan Poetry, from May ’68 to 2018. Anthology) Edicions 62, 2018

20 21 Elisenda Solsona The full moon fails to rise in the night sky, setting off deeply unsettling consequences in these eight loosely Satellites connected stories Satèl·lits

What happens when the Earth’s satellite—our Elisenda Solsona is a writer and a secondary school teacher. She moon—disappears? These tales, set in an holds degrees in Humanities and Audiovisual Communication and intensely familiar dystopian present, suggest some Screenwriting, and has studied writing at the Sala Beckett and the answers: destabilization, rain, snowstorms in the Barcelona Athenaeum. She has participated in musical, audiovisual, heat, even earthquakes. The animals are escaping and theatrical projects; contributed to anthologies; and published a the zoo, and our pets are behaving strangely. collection of poetic flash fiction. Human characters are also feeling the pull of this unprecedented lunar void, and we may be among those human characters ourselves. SELECTED WORKS An albino boy obsessed with astronomy and his brother, a gay couple considering adoption, a FICTION fisherman and his foreign wife, twins, two girls Cirurgies at summer camp... these pairs are each other’s (Surgeries) satellites in this moment of atmospheric crisis Voliana Edicions, 2016 that functions as an emotional fork in the road. With evocative, charged images, Solsona creates an astonishing universe tinged with dreams. Males Herbes, 2019 This volume of stories offers us an engrossing, 224 pages incredibly visceral reading experience, where our fears come to life and surround us. FOREIGN RIGHTS CONTACT: Males Herbes Ricard Planas [email protected]

22 23 Grants, Fellowship and Other Services Fellowship Every year the Institut Ramon Llull organises a fellowship targeted at international publishers and agents to take place in Barcelona. Literature Translation The invited professionals have the chance to acquire, first-hand, Grants for the translation of Catalan literature: fiction, non-fiction, an in-depth perspective on Catalan literature as well as to build children’s and YA books, poetry, theatre and graphic novels. networks with Catalan publishing houses and literary agencies. Travel and accommodation expenses during the fellowship are Recipients: Publishers. covered by the Institut Ramon Llull.

Literature Promotion Presence at International Book Fairs Grants to promote abroad Catalan literature (fiction, non- The Institut Ramon Llull attends the following book fairs on a fiction, children’s and YA books, poetry, theatre and graphic regular basis: London, Paris, Bologna, Warsaw, Beijing, Frankfurt, novels),including participation in international literary festivals and Istanbul and Guadalajara, providing information about its services presentations and promotional plans for works in translation. and activities. Recipients: Publishers, Literary Events Organizers. The Institut Ramon Llull manages and organises the presence of Catalan Culture as Guest of Honour at international book fairs. Catalan Culture was Guest of Honour at Turin Book Fair (2003), Children’s Illustration Feria del libro de Guadalajara (2004), Frankfurter Buchmesse Grants for the publication abroad of illustrated books by illustrators (2007), Goteborg Book Fair (2014) and Bologna Children’s Books settled in Catalonia or the Balearic Islands. Fair (2017). The city of Barcelona was also Guest of Honour at the Paris (2013), Warsaw (2016) and Buenos Aires (2019) Book Fairs. Recipients: Publishers.

Samples & Booklets Other Services The Institut Ramon Llull promotes networking between Grants to translate samples of works written in Catalan to produce international publishers and agents and the Catalan publishing booklets for promotional purposes. sector. The Department of Literature and the Humanities is Recipients: Publishers, Literary Agencies. available to provide international publishing professionals with the contacts of Catalan authors, publishers or agents. The Institut Ramon Llull also offers information on its website Translators in Residency about the translation and the translators of Catalan literature Grants for translators working on translations from Catalan to through the databases TRAC and TRADUCAT. other languages, providing stays of two to six weeks in Catalonia. Recipients: Translators.

Travel for Writers and Illustrators Grants for writers and illustrators that finance travel costs to carry out literary activities, to which they have been invited. Recipients: Writers in Catalan and illustrators with at least two books originally published in Catalan.

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