Writer and journalist

She’s the author of No soc aquí [I Am Not Here] (Llibres Anagrama Prize 2020) and Joyce i les gallines [Joyce and the Hens], along with the non-fiction book Elles competeixen [They Compete] and the poetry collections Conill de gàbia [Caged Rabbit] and La mare que et renyava era un robot [The Mother Who Scolded You Was a Robot]. 

Holding a Master’s Degree in Comparative Literature from the UAB, Anna collaborates with the Catalonia Ràdio programme Ciutat Maragda and contributes to El País’s Quadern section. She has also written the foreword for the reissue of Jordi Cussà’s novel Formentera Lady.

Last Update: July, 2024

Articles by Anna Ballbona

© Àlex Rademakers
“As authors, the only thing we can do is try not to be lazy”

Blanca Llum Vidal

The books by Blanca Llum Vidal (Barcelona, 1986) serve as a natural amalgamation of interests, readings and idiosyncrasies. Her love and relationships, admiration for authors...

Retrat de Vicenç Viaplana. © Mariona Gil
“We can no longer be sure of what we’re seeing”

Vicenç Viaplana

Never had so much work been exhibited and so much at the same time by the artist Vicenç Viaplana (Granollers, 1955). A truly free soul, advocate and researcher of painting, this spring...

Il·lustració © Raquel Marín
Couplets on the night bus

When her friends started getting into the habit of splitting taxis to get home, for the first time she thought that she’d have to give up the night bus.

Book: Novel·la, Pol Beckmann
A puzzle in the service of love and writing

The debut novel by young Pol Beckmann (Barcelona, 1991), that has received the Llibreter 2019 award in the category of other literatures, is a multi-faceted literary game.

Llibre: Els límits del Quim Porta, de Josep Pedrals
Breaking the sound barrier

Els límits del Quim Porta, a book by Josep Perals, is bound to disturb and hypnotise. The whole book breathes poetry, lyrical sonority, ideas, constant revelation of language,...

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