Collective residencies / Translation of Catalan poetry into Hungarian and vice versa / Olot
ANDREU GOMILA LLOBERA
From Friday, 10 March 2023 to Sunday, 12 March 2023
Bio
Poet, novelist, literary and theatre critic. He has published the poetry collections Un dia a l'infern dels que són (La Magrana, 2011), Diari de Buenos Aires (Moll, 2007), Aquí i ara (El Gall, 2007), Carrer dels dies (Proa, 2012) and Felanitx (Edicions 62, 2020); the novels El port. No serà res de mi (Moll, 2010), Continents (Empúries, 2016) and La mesura de totes les coses (Empúries, 2021); the musical essay Putos himnes generacionals (Empúries, 2015), and the Catalan translation of L'inconvenient d’être né by Cioran (De l'inconvenient d'haver nascut, Empúries, 2019) and Alcools by Guillaume Apollinaire (Alcohols, LaBreu, 2021), among others. His poems have been translated into Spanish, Hungarian, English, French and Serbo-Croatian.
Project
I am going to help a group of hungarian translators to do an antology of Catalan contemporary poetry. I have worked with them in Hungary for several years, translating into Hungarian some Hungarian poets and novelists. And now we are going to do the reverse exercise.