Bio

Alba Dalmau was born in 1987 in Cardedeu, she holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication and a masters in Literary Creation from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. In 2011 she published her first novel Vonlenska, winner of the Premi Recull. She is also the author of three books that combine literature and photography: On només hi havia un far, Estrena and CU(B)A. She has lived in New York, where she wrote the novel Bategant, winner of the 2015 Vila de l’Ametlla de Mar Award, and the story collection Estàndards (Angle, 2017), winner of the XXVIII Vila d’Ascó Literary Prize. She has also published the novel El camí dels esbarzers (Angle, 2019) and the children’s book Capgirat (Bindi Books, 2020), illustrated by Cinta Vidal. Her latest published novel is Amor i no (Angle, 2021) She is currently a creative writing teacher at the Laboratori de Lletres in Barcelona.

Project

NUDE COLOR is a collection of short stories based on a thorough study of the history of color, its meaning, and the emotional impact that colors have on people's feelings and mind.

Each story, as if it were an exercise by the OULIPO experimental writing group, will subtly contain as many elements as possible related to that color; hence, a chromatic effect would occur during the reading.

At the same time, most stories are based on bizarre stories inspired by reality.