ANNA AGUILAR-AMAT (Barcelona, 1962)
Anna Aguilar-Amat has a PhD from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona where she currently teaches Terminology at the Translation Faculty. She came to the foreground of Catalan poetry with the books Petrolier (2003) (Oil Tanker), Trànsit entre dos vols (2001) (Transit Between Two Flights) and Música i escorbut (2002) (Music and Scurvy). She has also published the book of essays El plaer de la lectura (2004) (The Pleasure of Reading) and
has been awarded prestigious prizes such as the Carles Riba award for poetry.
Her poetry is featured in several anthologies of Catalan poets and she has been translated into Spanish, English, French, Italian, Sardinian, Macedonian, Finnish, Arabic and Slovenian. Since 2003, she has been president of QUARKpoesia (Aula de Poesia de la Universitat Autònoma), which seeks to promote the translation of poetry of less translated languages. In 2006, she founded the publishing company Refraccions at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, publishing bilingual or trilingual poetry books. She has also written lyrics for various musicians.
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SELECTED WORKS
· Trànsit entre dos vols
(Proa, 2001) [‘Transit Between Two Flights’].
· Música i escorbut
(Ed. 62 - Empúries, 2002) [‘Music and Scurvy’].
· Petrolier
(Denes - Ed. de la Guerra, 2003) [‘Oil Tanker’].
· Jocs de l’oca
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2006) [‘Snakes and ladders’].
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LATEST WORKS IN TRANSLATION
ENGLISH
· Light off water [Anthology], tr. Anna Crowe. Edinburgh: Scottish Poetry library, 2007.
FRENCH
· 48 poètes catalans pour le XXI Siècle [Anthology], tr. François - Michel Durazzo. Québec: Écrits de Forges, 2005.
MACEDONIAN
· Music and Scurvy [‘Música i Escorbut’], tr. Magdalena Horvat. Skopje: Cultural Institution Blesok, 2007.
SPANISH
· Sol de sal la nueva poesía catalana (antología 1976-2001), tr. Jordi Virallonga. Barcelona: DVD Ediciones, 2001.
· He decidido seguir viviendo... [Anthology], tr. José Bru & Jorge Souza. Mexico: Universidad de Guadalajara, 2004.
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