Anna Soler-Pont (born 1968), is a Spanish writer. She was born in Barcelona, where she still lives.
After her studies of Arab Philology, she spent some time in Cairo, and an overland trip from Barcelona to New Delhi marked her professional career. In 1992 she founded Pontas Literary & Film Agency, [1] representing a wide range of authors and maintaining its focus on multicultural projects. In 2005 she published an anthology of African stories and legends entitled A Marvellous Book of African Stories for Children. In 2007, she published the book Rastres de sàndal, co-authored with Asha Miró, which in 2014 was made into a film directed by Maria Ripoll. [2]
Mercè Rodoreda i Gurguí was a Spanish novelist, who wrote in Catalan.
Ana María Matute Ausejo was an internationally acclaimed Catalan writer and member of the Real Academia Española. In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for Primera memoria. The third woman to receive the Cervantes Prize for her literary oeuvre, she is considered one of the foremost novelists of the posguerra, the period immediately following the Spanish Civil War.
Rosa Montero Gayo is a Spanish journalist and author of contemporary fiction.
Daína Chaviano is a Cuban-American writer of French and Asturian descent living in the United States since 1991.
Elena Quiroga de Abarca was a Spanish writer.
Marta Rivera de la Cruz is a Spanish writer and politician.
Sara Gallardo Drago Mitre was an influential Argentine author and journalist.
Enrique Vila-Matas is a Spanish author. He has authored several award-winning books that mix genres and has been branded as one of the most original and prominent writers in the Spanish language.
Wendy Guerra, formally Wendy Guerra Torres, is a Cuban poet and novelist, based in Miami.
Ángela Becerra Acevedo is a Colombian writer. She has won several awards such as the Premio Fernando Lara de Novela in 2019, the Planeta-Casa de América Award in 2009, the Azorín Prize in 2005 and four Chicago Latin Literary Awards, as well as the Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa. Her works have been translated into 23 languages and published in more than 50 countries. She is one of the most widely read Spanish-speaking authors, the most read Colombian writer after Gabriel García Márquez, and considered the creator of the Magical Idealism.
Irene Zoe Alameda is a Spanish writer and filmmaker. Her feature film "La cinta de Álex" won the Best Picture award at the 2020 Winter Film Awards in New York. The movie was considered one of the best "operas prima" of Spanish cinema (Fotogramas). She is also the acclaimed author of the books: "Antrópolis" (2017), "WA. Ultimos Dias de Warla Alkman"(2013), and "Sueños itinerantes" (2004)
Anna Bofill Leví is a Catalan Spanish pianist, architect and composer.
Núria Perpinyà Filella is a Catalan novelist, a playwright and an essayist. Senior Lecturer in Theory and Comparative Literature at the university of Lleida in Catalonia, Spain. Her novels deal with unusual topics and are characterized by their intellectual irony, formal rigor and experimentalism. In her books, she defends the philosophy of Perspectivism and reflects on the fact that the phenomena have multiple interpretations. Her creative work is written in Catalan, but most of the essays are published in Spanish or in English.
Sílvia Pérez Cruz is a Spanish singer. In 2012, she recorded her first solo album, 11 de Novembre, which was nominated for album of the year in both Spain and France. A song performed by her, "No Te Puedo Encontrar", received a Goya Award for best original song for 2012. In 2014, she released her album Granada. Both releases have been in collaboration with Raül Fernández Miró. She received another Goya Award for best original song, for the song "Ai, ai, ai", composed and performed by her, from the film "Cerca de tu casa" (2016).
Nadia Ghulam Dastgir is an Afghan woman who spent ten years posing as her dead brother to evade the Taliban's strictures against women. Her book about her experiences, written with Agnès Rotger and published in 2010, El secret del meu turbant, won the Prudenci Bertrana Prize for fiction.
Francisca Rubio Gámez, better known by the pseudonym Fanny Rubio, is a Spanish professor, researcher, and writer, an expert in contemporary Spanish poetry.
Aurora Luque Ortiz is a Spanish poet, translator, teacher, and writer based in Andalusia.
Isabel Olid Báez, known as Bel Olid, is a Catalan writer, translator, and teacher of language, literature, translation, and creative writing. She has received several literary prizes, among them the 2010 Documenta Award. Since March 2015 she has been the president of the Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana.
Amanda Junquera Butler was a Spanish writer. Raised in Madrid, she attended university during the Spanish Civil War at the University of Valencia. Junquera was a noted translator, chronicler, and short story writer in the mid-20th century, whose works and impact received new interest in the 21st century with republishing of some of her works and scholarship on her life.
Aina Clotet Fresquet is a Spanish actress and director known mainly for her participation in numerous series of the Catalan channel TV3 among which Estació d'enllaç and Infidels stand out. In 2015 she made her directorial debut with her first short film Tiger, which was nominated for a Gaudí award.