Catalan Literary Non-fiction

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The Eye and the Razor, Ingrid Guardiola 4The Historian’s Role, Josep Fontana 6The Interloper, Monika Zgustova 8The Paris Meridian, Lluís Calvo 10New Radical Enlightenment, Marina Garcés 12China Fast Forward, Sergi Vicente 14The Penultimate Kindness, Josep Maria Esquirol 16Art and Blasphemy, Lluís Quintana 18The Humanities in Action, Susana Arias & Laura Huerga (eds.) 20World History of Catalonia, Borja de Riquer (ed.) 22

IRL Grants, Fellowship and Other Services 24

IRL Literature and the Humanities Team 26

IRL Foreign Offices 27

Contents

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This is an outstanding moment for Catalan literature. An exceptionally fine tradition meets contemporary innovation in constant dialogue with other literatures and realities. This creative momentum is bolstered by a dynamic publishing industry and a proficient network of literary agents.

This booklet offers 10 excellent essays recently published in Catalan. The selection reflects a variety of trends, topics and genres: philosophical texts; humanistic essays; narrative journalism; biographies, and more. This heterogeneous collection of titles is targeted at a wide readership, cultured but not specialised, and concerned with art, history, politics, classic and current debates. 10 engaging and elegantly-written books, which aim to promote critical thinking and aesthetic pleasure in order to enrich our experience of the world.

Along with this exciting overview of the current and lively scene of Catalan literary non-fiction, this booklet also presents information on the resources, services and grants that the Institut Ramon Llull offers to international publishing professionals. As the public institution devoted to extending the reach of Catalan language and culture, the Institut Ramon Llull supports authors, translators, publishers and literary agents with the aim of ensuring that Catalan literature is translated, published and read abroad.

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

Department of Literature and the HumanitiesInstitut Ramon Llull

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With a subtle yet sharply incisive style, Guardiola analyzes the oppressive/liberating possibilities of consuming/living reality as an audiovisual product.

Ingrid Guardiola

The world is a virtual interface. Through the screens of our digital devices we experience physical (and psychic) reality; we exchange images and information that condition our private and public lives. This technology has already changed personal relationships, our ideas about ourselves, and our very perception of time and space. At these coordinates, life is reduced to a spectacle managed by private

interests. To combat this commercialized gaze, Ingrid Guardiola proposes using Bartleby’s strategy; in other words, refusing to participate with a gentle “I would prefer not to.” And following this gesture, the author strives to recover a critical distance from the virtual world, facilitate an alternate space in which to reestablish community ties in order to make our world inhabitable.

Arcàdia, 2018264 pagesAlso published in Spanish

FOREIGN RIGHTS CONTACT: Montse Ingla montse.ingla@gmail.comArcàdia Editorial

The Eye and the RazorL’ull i la navalla

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«Without a doubt, it is the companies with the most capital (headed up by Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple) that have the greatest capacity to infiltrate our personal communication spaces and mobilize our sensibility and our tastes. They are able to not only determine our consumption, but also our identity, in other words, how we dress, how we speak, how we think, how we act.»

Ingrid Guardiola (Girona, 1980) is a film producer, researcher, and director. She holds a doctorate in Humanities from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and has worked primarily on issues around gender, inequality, and technology in the realm of culture and film praxis. She was an associate professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2009-2015) and currently teaches at the Universitat de Girona and the Universitat de Barcelona, and as a visiting professor at the universities of València and Rovira i Virgili.

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The final lesson from one of the great Catalan (and European) historians. Nine chapters brimming with sensitivity and rigor that allow us to better understand our present.

Josep Fontana

In a letter from the late 1950s, Pierre Vilar wrote to a young Josep Fontana: “What we seek is not a cold science, but it is a science.” Six decades and many awards later, Fontana recently passed away as one of the most influential intellectuals of his generation. His last work, The Historian’s Role, is—from the very title—a declaration of intentions, a moral and intellectual legacy. Nine lessons that cover the core of his

research (the modern history of Catalonia and Spain, world history since WWII) but also the inevitable commitment and social consequences of historical investigation. In the face of evidence that access to the past is not innocent and that history can explain the present in various ways, Fontana recalls the words of his teacher in a call for methodology and empathy in the treatment of the events of human history.

Arcàdia, 2018272 pages

FOREIGN RIGHTS CONTACT: Montse Ingla montse.ingla@gmail.comArcàdia Editorial

The Historian’s RoleL’ofici d’historiador

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«Our history never ends, it never deals a final verdict. It is continually in construction and can only have true social utility if we keep it in close constant contact with the contemporary world around us.»

Josep Fontana (Barcelona, 1931 – 2018) taught Contemporary History and Economic History at various Spanish universities. He was awarded the 2007 Catalan National Culture Prize in recognition of his career. He is author of an extensive body of work that is an international benchmark. His most recent books include Por el bien del imperio. Una historia del mundo desde 1945 (2011), El futuro es un país extraño. Una reflexión sobre la crisis social de comienzos del siglo xxi (2013), La formació d’una identitat (2016), El siglo de la revolución (2017) and this, his final book.

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Por el bien del imperio [For the Sake of the Empire] Pasado y Presente, 2011 Sold to Guizhau People’s Publishing House (Chinese)

El siglo de la revolución [The Revolution’s Century] Crítica, 2017 Sold to Cultural Development Publishing House (Chinese)

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A rigorous and intimate portrait of Gala Dalí in all her complexity and many roles: daughter, mother, friend, lover, icon... and interloper.

Monika Zgustova

Her biography mirrors the history of the 20th century avant-garde. Gala was at the spiritual center of her era and, at the same time, she never stopped feeling like an intruder. She crossed war-torn Europe to reunite with Paul Éluard, have a daughter and fall out of love with him; she intensely admired her poet friend Marina Tsvetaeva but they ended up separated by icy distance; she was the embodiment of the Surrealist woman, but

she never earned the trust of André Breton or Luís Buñuel; not even her resplendent relationship with Dalí kept her from experiencing a secluded old age. In this work, Monika Zgustova, who had access to Gala’s private diaries, offers us a series of keys to understanding a legendarily complex woman with a difficult and perceptive spirit, who was intrinsic to creating the public figure of Salvador Dalí.

Galaxia Gutenberg, 2018144 pagesAlso published in Spanish

FOREIGN RIGHTS CONTACT: Lidia Reyrey@galaxiagutenberg.comGalaxia Gutenberg

The InterloperLa intrusa

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«[Dalí] had fixed his attention on one woman and had eyes for no one else. Gala Éluard was ten years his senior and possessed of an opaque and shadowy beauty. She’d been described as a femme fatale, sophisticated and enigmatic. He saw her as a muse to several in the Surrealist group, with her capacity for the irrationality so essential to the art movement; a woman who would sporadically get more excited than decorum allowed only to then shift quickly into deep, starry-eyed melancholy.»

Monika Zgustova was born in Prague and has lived in Barcelona since the 80s. She is a translator, writer, and contributor to various Spanish and international media outlets. She has translated some sixty books from Czech and Russian (Bohumil Hrabal, Jaroslav Hašek, Václav Havel, Milan Kundera, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, among others), for which she received the City of Barcelona Prize and the Ángel Crespo Award. She is author of a book of short stories, Contes de la lluna absent, winner of the Mercè Rodoreda Prize, and six novels including La dona silenciosa, lauded as one of the five best novels of 2005, La nit de Valia, winner of the 2014 Amat-Piniella Prize for best novel of the year, Les roses de Stalin, and Vestides per a un ball a la neu, which won the 2017 Cálamo Prize for novel of the year and chosen as one of the ten best books of 2017 by La Vanguardia, El Periodico, and W Magazine. Her work has been translated into ten languages.

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Vestides per a un ball a la neu [Dressed for a Ball in the Snow] Galaxia Gutenberg, 2017 Sold to The Other Press (English), Ninawa (Arabic).

Les roses d’Stalin [The Stalin’s Roses] Galaxia Gutenberg, 2016 Sold to Odeon (Czech), Inostrannaya literatura (Russian).

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Using the Paris meridian as an itinerary, Lluís Calvo weaves together stories and reflections that sketch an alternative history of enlightened Europe.

Lluís Calvo

Before being supplanted by the Greenwich Meridian line, the Paris Meridian was a world geographical reference and a symbol of enlightened progress, but today it has become a phantasmagorical presence. Using this metaphor as a starting point, Lluís Calvo combines poetic pacing, philosophical rigour, and narrative passion to propose an itinerary that stops at various

points along this invisible line that traces the flip side of European history. This route ends, as a symbol and a warning, at Dragonera Island, surrounded by a sea where each year hundreds of the dispossessed drown: symbol of a Europe that “rises from the ruins of its errors,” and warning for a future that remains to be written. Edicions Poncianes, 2018

206 pages

FOREIGN RIGHTS CONTACT: Alba Vinyesassociacio@joanponc.cat Edicions Poncianes

The Paris MeridianEl meridià de París

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«Europe will only avoid sinking […] if it can put an end to blind, cruel, exploitative action and reconsider its unlimited reliance on the material progress set in motion by modernity. And also if it can see itself reflected in the emancipating actions that have given it voice, vote, and personality over the last three centuries. Now progress lies in another place, beyond the spirit of depredation, like a line that extends from one end of the continent to the other. Meridians remain everywhere, sketching out paths and history. Dusk falls. And in the most ancient sea the glow of a lighthouse beams, perhaps for the last time.»

Lluís Calvo (Saragossa, 1963) holds a degree in geography from the Universitat de Barcelona and works in cultural management. He is a poet, prose writer, literary critic, and essayist. He has published the following books of essays: Les interpretacions (2006) and Baules i llenguatges (2011). His fourteen volumes of poetry include Estiula (2011), Teresa la mòmia (with David Caño, 2013) Llegat rebel (2013), and Selvàtica (2015). He has published four novels, most recently L’endemà de tot (2014). He has been awarded numerous prizes including the Amadeu Oller, the Jocs Florals de Barcelona, the Vicent Andrés Estellés, the Rosa Leveroni and the Serra d’Or Critics’ Prize. Calvo’s work has been translated into English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Polish.

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Garcés challenges the catastrophic narratives put forth by the politics of hate and in their place proposes a new radical Enlightenment able to imagine new horizons in community.

Marina Garcés

Winner of the 2018 Barcelona Essay PrizeWe live in a time Marina Garcés describes as posthumous. Enlightenment’s aim of “liberating human beings from fear and installing them as masters,” in the words of Adorno and Horkheimer, seems to have failed. Confidence in history’s constant progress has plummeted and, in its place, reigns a provisional apocalyptic experience. New catastrophic narratives incite authoritarianism, fanaticism, and terrorism, and impose a

false dichotomy between seeking contingent solutions or falling into the fatalism of the doomed. The author pushes back against these new forms of gullibility and again picks up the old gauntlet of philosophy. Reinstating the radical nature of the Enlightenment affirms the dignity of the human experience and, from that space, proposes a “reciprocal and welcoming” universal standard that fosters new forms of life.

Anagrama, 201780 pages Also published in Spanish

RIGHTS SOLD: Turia +Kant (German)Nutrimenti (Italian)La Lenteur (French)Editora Âyné (Brazilian Portuguese)

FOREIGN RIGHTS CONTACT: Isabel Obiols iobiols@anagrama-ed.esAnagrama

New Radical EnlightenmentNova Il•lustració radical

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«We are on the cusp of a surrender. The human renunciation of the task of learning and educating oneself in order to live more nobly. In the face of this surrender, I propose a new radical Enlightenment. Recommencing the fight against gullibility and affirming the freedom and dignity of the human experience with its capacity for learning. Originally, this fight was revolutionary. Now it is necessary.»

Marina Garcés (Barcelona, 1973) is a philosopher, essayist, professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), and winner of the 2018 Barcelona Non-fiction Prize. Committed to reflecting on life as a common problem, she has, since 2002, guided the collective critical thought project Espai en Blanc. She is the author of the books En las prisiones de lo posible (2002), Un mundo común (2013), Filosofía inacabada (2015), Fora de classe (2016), Nova Il·lustració radical (2017), and Ciutat Princesa (2018).

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Moving beyond national rhetoric, this foreign correspondent’s vivid chronicles reveal the intimate workings of a country in rapid transformation.

Sergi Vicente

Sergi Vicente arrived in China in 2002 for a three-week stay, and didn’t leave until twelve years later, with a Chinese wife and two children. He began working as an English teacher, but soon became a television correspondent. As a news reporter, he became familiar with this vast country undergoing profound transformations: from rural, autarchic Maoist communism to urban

state capitalism that is open to international trade. A huge upheaval in the lives of almost 1.4 billion people. In this book, a former foreign correspondent transcends his personal biography and geopolitics to offer a series of moving chronicles from the belly of the beast. The result is an exhilarating, multi-faceted portrait of one of the most fascinating countries in the world.

Ara Llibres, 2018 424 pagesAlso published in Península (Spanish)

FOREIGN RIGHTS CONTACT: Gemma Isusgisus@planeta.esPlaneta

China Fast ForwardXina Fast Forward

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«Traveling along the Yangtze, I went through newly built cities designed to house millions of people. Most of them had already settled in, but many more were still arriving as the water rose and swallowed up the old cities [...] The further I travelled, the higher the mountains were, and the more imposing everything became when someone explained how that vast bridge you saw so high up, towering more than sixty or seventy meters over your boat, would barely be above the water level of the river when the project was complete, and that all the space you were now sailing through would be submerged.»

Sergi Vicente (Barcelona, 1975) is a journalist who, since 2015, is the director of Barcelona Television. He began his career in 1999 at TVE, the Spanish national television station, and later, between 2003 and 2015, he was head of the correspondents’ office for Televisió de Catalunya in China.

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Esquirol explores inhospitable, centreless peripheries where human beings strive to realize themselves through the–not always successful–embodiment of kindness.

Josep Maria Esquirol

In his last book Intimate Resistance, Josep Maria Esquirol revealed himself to be a thinker able to reach a wide audience without sacrificing rigour or depth. With this new title, he again surrounds himself with like-minded authors (Lévinas, Heidegger or Merleau-Ponty) in order to create an original thesis that proves his thought is constantly evolving. He proposes a philosophy of intimacy, expressed in simple—almost palpable—words, inviting us to question where our essence as human

beings resides. Avoiding any absolutes, Esquirol locates the human condition out at the mercy of the elements, on very particular margins, perhaps disoriented, with no center to yearn for or attempt to locate. Exploring concepts such as desire, creation, and gratitude, the author concludes that we are defined by our ability to be open to others: to care for one another, to listen, to be generous. These various forms of kindness are what define us as human beings.

Quaderns Crema, 2018176 pagesAlso published in Acantilado (Spanish)

RIGHTS SOLD: Vita e Pensiero (Italian)

FOREIGN RIGHTS CONTACT: Anna Muñozrights@acantilado.es Quaderns Crema

The Penultimate KindnessLa penúltima bondat

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«The human condition must not be considered based on the idea of abundance (an idea that is always present in Edenic, post-historical speculation), but rather based on the wilds beyond the garden, and on deep abiding affection. Thus, while celebrating the paradise myth as one of the most brilliant poetic creations of all time, we must recognize in it a sly, troubling connotation.»

Josep Maria Esquirol is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Barcelona (UB), where he directs the Aporia research group. He is the author of numerous studies on contemporary philosophy and gives seminars on the subject at universities abroad. He was awarded with the National Essay Award and the Barcelona Prize with his work The Inner Resistance which was also a commercial success. He continues exploring his original philosophical path with his last acclaimed title, The Penultimate Kindness.

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La resistència íntima [Intimate Resistance] Quaderns Crema, 2016 Sold to Vita e Pensiero (Italian)

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An elegant analysis that relishes in and plays with the humanist tradition to reveal the magnitude of repercussions generated by Veronese’s trial. The painter, by titling his work, not only avoided the wrath of the Inquisition, but he also prompted a new tradition within figurative painting.

Lluís Quintana Trias

In July of 1573, Paolo Veronese was summoned before the Inquisition to justify the Last Supper he had painted at the Basilica de Santi Giovanni e Paolo. To circumvent the accusation of heresy for having introduced profane elements into a sacred scene, Veronese came up with a revolutionary solution: he added a title to his work. The Last Supper became The Feast in the House of Levi, a depiction of a minor Biblical episode, thus attenuating the blasphemy. This innovative defense has been the subject of much analysis,

often as an example of an artist’s confrontation with power, but never before have its artistic, social, and semiotic implications been considered with such nuance. Now in an erudite yet highly readable volume, Quintana shows how, by naming the painting, Veronese shook the foundations of the tradition of figurative painting—which had been tied to depicting a limited number of scenes—and gave some independence and freedom to artistic creation, opening up the possibility of painting new themes.

Fragmenta Editorial, 2019Pages: 125

FOREIGN RIGHTS CONTACT: Ignasi Moretaignasi.moreta@fragmenta.catFragmenta Editorial

Art and BlasphemyArt i blasfèmia

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«In an artistic tradition where paintings bore no title because they were commissioned or because the representation itself was so loaded with meaning, adding a title meant altering that tradition because it widened the scope of paint-worthy subjects, forcing the acceptance of themes the viewer was unfamiliar with or—even worse, at least for the church authorities—accepting that the viewer might not know some episodes considered fundamental to a Catholic’s education.»

Lluís Quintana Trias (Barcelona, 1953) is a professor of Catalan language and literature at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He has published studies on modern Catalan authors such as Foix, Pla, Calders, and particularly Maragall, to whom he devoted the monograph La veu misteriosa. La teoria literària de Joan Maragall (1996). His book on snobbery, entitled La paradoxa del majordom (2000), earned him the 1999 Josep Vallverdú Award. He addressed the presence and presentation of individual and collective memory in Més enllà de tot càstig. Reflexions sobre la transició democràtica (2004) and in his penultimate book, Caminar per la vida vella. La memòria involuntària en la literatura i l’art (2017). He edited, along with Antoni Marí, Catalans de 1918 by Foix (2018). He is currently overseeing the critical edition of the complete works of Joan Maragall.

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An interdisciplinary defense of the humanities, a catalogue of critical virtues for surviving our contemporary world, and an overview of the deliberations and (some of) the protagonists of current literary, artistic, and scientific creation in Catalonia.

Susana Arias and Laura Huerga (eds.)

A collective volume that puts forth an interdisciplinary defense of the humanities, so necessary in the context of growing utilitarianism. A proposal -made up of many voices from within an individualistic society- that strives to create a space of critical reflection outside of the classical institutional circuit. An intergenerational portrait that captures the current vibrancy of Catalan literature, art, and thought. A book featuring 20 creators and researchers, each of them offering a short chapter with its own personality, entitled with a

concept chosen to encapsulate the center of gravity of their ruminations. Philosophers, playwrights, journalists, poets, novelists, scientists, activists, and filmmakers reflect on their work around these key ideas: Attention, Love, Curiosity, Randomness, Value, Tradition, Refusal, Alterity, and so on, for a total of 20 rules, attitudes, values, gestures, or guides that comprise a manual of intellectual resistance and a catalogue of virtues that reestablish the humanities to their rightful relevance, both individual and collective.

Raig Verd, 2019 240 pagesAlso published in Spanish

FOREIGN RIGHTS CONTACT: Laura Huerga laura.huerga@rayoverde.es Raig Verd

The Humanities in ActionHumanitats en acció

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«…we understand the humanities not as a group of academic disciplines, which in Catalan we’ve traditionally called “letters,” but rather as an open grouping of activities that elaborate on the meaning of human experience through the lens of freedom and dignity.»Marina Garcés, from the prologue

Susana Arias is a cultural manager and programmer. She coordinates the Institut d’Humanitats in Barcelona, where she directed the series of conferences on the humanities that led to this book. She is also one of the cultural programmers of lectures and debates at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona.

Laura Huerga is the editor and founder of the publishing house Raig Verd, which commissioned this editorial project. She is the co-author, with Blanca Busquets, of the book Tu, calla!, which deals with censorship and repression in contemporary Spain.

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A highly readable history told from many angles that’s brimming with details and surprising discoveries. These 124 episodes written by the finest specialists exemplify Catalonia’s connections with the rest of the world, and their wide range of mutual influences.

Borja de Riquer (ed.)

Compiled by distinguished professor of history Borja de Riquer, World History of Catalonia brings together more than a hundred specialists in order to offer a chorus of perspectives on this land. Told in an accessible style that employs all the narrative tension of history, we see Catalonia’s progression from the cave paintings in Capçanes (in the Priorat region) to the events of October 2017. This collection of chronicles reveals 124 essential moments in Catalan history: the two years Emperor

Augustus spent in Tarraco during the Roman conquest of Hispania; the success of Catalan cookbooks in Italy during the 14th century; and the sentimental revolution provoked by Johann Cruyff taking the helm of the F.C. Barcelona... Chronologically organized, although readers can dip in anywhere, the volume is a meticulous, innovative, and appealing portrait of a country that, while rich with its own myths and legends, remains open to the world and proud of the influence other cultures have exerted on it.

Edicions 62, 2018992 pages

FOREIGN RIGHTS CONTACT: Gemma Isusgisus@planeta.esPlaneta

World History of CataloniaHistòria mundial de Catalunya

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«In the general elections held in November 1933, Catalan women exercised their right to vote for the first time, many years—twelve to be exact—before French women. Like in other European countries, there were those who were hesitant, out of a fear of upsetting gender roles, forfeiting traditional femininity, and becoming masculine. […] Despite their reluctance to take on a political role, Catalan women shouldered the responsibility of their suffrage.»

Borja de Riquer i Permanyer (Barcelona, 1945) is a distinguished senior professor of Contemporary History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and a specialist in the history of the 19th century, political Catalan nationalism, and Francoism. He has been awarded the UAB’s Medal of Honour, and recognized by the Generalitat both as an “Esteemed Researcher” and with the Sant Jordi Cross, the highest honour given by the Catalan government.

He was a contributor to Història de Catalunya, edited by Pierre Vilar, and has in turn compiled numerous collective works of history such as this one. His own books include Lliga Regionalista: la burgesia catalana i el nacionalisme (1898-1904), L’últim Cambó (1936- 1947), Identitats contemporànies: Catalunya i Espanya, «Escolta Espanya». La cuestión catalana en la época liberal, and La dictadura de Franco.

Grants, Fellowship and Other Services

Literature TranslationGrants for the translation of Catalan literature: fiction, non-fiction, children’s and YA books, poetry, theatre and graphic novels. Recipients: Publishers.

Literature PromotionGrants to promote abroad Catalan literature (fiction, non-fiction, children’s and YA books, poetry, theatre and graphic novels), including participation in international literary festivals and presentations and promotional plans for works in translation.Recipients: Publishers, Literary Events Organizers.

Children’s IllustrationGrants for the publication abroad of illustrated books by illustrators settled in Catalonia or the Balearic Islands.Recipients: Publishers.

Samples & BookletsGrants to translate samples of works written in Catalan to produce booklets for promotional purposes.Recipients: Publishers, Literary Agencies.

Translators in ResidencyGrants for translators working on translations from Catalan to stay from two to six weeks in Catalonia.Recipients: Translators.

Travel for Writers and IllustratorsGrants for writers and illustrators to 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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IRL FellowshipEvery year the Institut Ramon Llull (IRL) organises a fellowship targeted at international publishers and agents to take place in Barcelona.The invited professionals have the chance to acquire first-hand an in-depth perspective on Catalan literature as well as to build networks with Catalan publishing houses and literary agencies.Travel and accommodation expenses during the fellowship are covered by the IRL.

Presence at International Book FairsThe IRL attends the following book fairs on a regular basis: London, Paris, Bologna, Warsaw, Beijing, Frankfurt, Istanbul and Guadalajara, informing about its services and activities.The IRL 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), Feria del libro de Guadalajara (2004), Frankfurter Buchmesse (2007), Goteborg Book Fair (2014) and Bologna Children’s Books Fair (2017). The city of Barcelona was also Guest of Honour in Paris (2013), Warsaw (2016) and in 2019 at Buenos Aires Book Fair.

Other ServicesThe IRL promotes networking between the international publishers and agents and the Catalan publishing sector. The members of the Literature and the Humanities department will be pleased to provide international publishing professionals with the contacts of Catalan authors, publishers or agents.The IRL also offers information in its website about the translation and the translators of Catalan literature through the databases TRAC and TRADUCAT.

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First edition: March 2019Institut Ramon Llull

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