Collective residencies / Olot

Mireia Calafell Translator's Seminar

From Monday, 9 June 2025 to Friday, 13 June 2025

Mireia Calafell Translator's Seminar

June 2025

 For the first time, Faberllull is bringing together a group of translators (from Catalan to other languages) of the work of Mireia Calafell, one of the internationally best-known Catalan poets today, who will be present at the meeting.

In a double celebration, the event is a tribute to contemporary Catalan poetry and to the work of poetry translators, the voice of poets around the world. Because thanks to translators, a poet's verses cross borders and can be read in other languages. 

This meeting is a valuable opportunity for translators to get to know Calafell, her work and her sources of inspiration and influence from other poets. It is also a unique chance to work on poems from her latest book Si una emergència (If An Emergency) (2023) alone or in a team and to meet other professionals to grow the translator network. Finally, the meeting seeks to draw translators to works of Catalan poetry they were unaware of and translate them into their own languages. To this end, a talk on Catalan poetry will take place. 

programa-seminari-traductors-mireia-calafell-.pdf

Residents

ILARIA SOFIA PERRINO

ILARIA SOFIA PERRINO

Literary translator
HELENA GONZÁLEZ FERNÁNDEZ

HELENA GONZÁLEZ FERNÁNDEZ

University professor
ITXARO BORDA

ITXARO BORDA

Writer
UNAI VELASCO

UNAI VELASCO

Poet, editor and translator
REBECCA SIMPSON

REBECCA SIMPSON

Literary translator, writer, voice actress and teacher
MARTA PAWŁOWSKA

MARTA PAWŁOWSKA

University Professor and translator
MIREIA CALAFELL OBIOL

MIREIA CALAFELL OBIOL

Poet and Cultural Producer
FRANCESCO ARDOLINO

FRANCESCO ARDOLINO

University professor
GUILLERMO ÁLVAREZ SELLÁN

GUILLERMO ÁLVAREZ SELLÁN

Translator, university lecturer, PhD researcher
DORA BAKUCZ

DORA BAKUCZ

Translator and University professor

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What residents are saying about us

DORA BAKUCZ

Translator and University professor

DORA BAKUCZ

The experience of the time I spent in Olot, at Faber, with the Mireia Calafell translators, was absolutely first-rate. Meeting people who work in the same thing you do is always rewarding in itself, but a group consciousness does not always develop, ...

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GUILLERMO ÁLVAREZ SELLÁN

Translator, university lecturer, PhD researcher

GUILLERMO ÁLVAREZ SELLÁN

After working on Mireia's poems for months, the opportunity to spend time with the poet herself, to have the great fortune and delight of hearing her recite in an intimate circle, to chat and exchange views on her work and to clarify specific translation ...

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ITXARO BORDA

Writer

ITXARO BORDA

I spent five wonderful days at Faberllull residency in Olot, with Unai, Nathalie, Misia, Dora, Martha, Ilaria, Helena and Guillermo. I've learned a great deal, in an unparalleled setting. We explored the work of translation and the Catalan poetry ...

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NATHALIE BITTOUN-DEBRUYNE

Translator

NATHALIE BITTOUN-DEBRUYNE

Days of Translation and Literature It's not easy to summarise the full experience we had in Olot thanks to the Faberllull initiative of assembling nine translators of Mireia Calafell's poetry to work together for a week. In a hugely ...

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