Authors who make the city pulsate
Barcelona: títol provisional [Barcelona: Working Title] is a journey through contemporary Barcelona by means of its writers. Andreu Gomila and Diego Piccininno have asked a...
Ada Castells
Writer and cultural journalist
Cultural journalist and writer. At the age of 27 she published her first novel, El dit de l’àngel [The Angel’s Finger] (Empúries, 1998),. This was followed by Mirada [The Gaze] and Tota la vida [Throughout Life] (Empúries, 2001 and 2005). Pura Sang [Pure Blood] (Edicions 62, 2012), set in Menorca and Barcelona, won the Sant Joan Prize for Catalan Literature in 2012.
Her latest works include La primavera pendent [The Awaiting Spring] (Comanegra, 2018) and Mare [Mother] (La Campana, 2019). She works as a literary journalist in various written and audiovisual media outlets and teaches writing at the Ateneu Barcelonès.
Last Update: May, 2020
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