GEMMA GORGA (Barcelona, 1968)
Poet. Gemma Gorga has a PhD in Spanish Language and Literature from the University of Barcelona, where she currently works as a Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature. In 1996, she won the Rosa Leveroni Prize for poetry with Ocellania (1997) (Bordology). Soon after, she published El desordre de les mans (2003) (Disorder of the Hands) and Instruments òptics (2005) (Optic Instruments), and, in 2006, she published Llibre dels minuts (Book of Minutes) in which she uses prose poems as a tool for knowledge of her own experience. Within non-fiction she has published with Antoni Lozano La cuina natural. Salut, tradició i plaer a taula (2004) (Within the Natural Kitchen: Health, Tradition and Pleasure at the Table), which combine in equal portion tradition, gastronomy and dietetics. Some of her poems have been included in anthologies and translated into Basque, English, Slovenian and Polish.
With regard to Instruments òptics, the poet Susanna Rafart asserts “Instruments òptics is a book of poems of gainful convalescence. Convalescence gives rise to blameless inaction which contemplates wonder, reflection and distance with existence. Gemma Gorga opens up a chamber for us in which stillness as a category creates a different purview”.
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SELECTED WORKS
· Ocellania
(Parsifal, 1997) [‘Bordology’].
· El desordre de les mans
(Pagès, 2003) [‘Disorder of the hands’].
· Instruments òptics
(Brosquil, 2005) [‘Optic instruments’].
· Llibre dels minuts
(Columna, 2006) [‘Book of minutes’].
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