Bio

She holds a degree in audiovisual communication and a PhD in social communication from the UPF. She has written feature films and series, including Tros (nominated for best film at the 2022 Gaudí awards), Com si fos ahir (2019-2021), Tornarem (Gold Panda award, Gaudí award and ATV award, 2013), Cançó per a tu (nominated for a Gaudí award in 2020) and showrunner on Les de l’hoquei (2019-2020, CIMA equality award).

She has published the essay La mente narradora: la neurociencia aplicada al arte de escribir guiones (Laertes, 2017) and four novels: Surt el sol i encara plou (Empúries, 2013), Nits de guàrdia 1 and 2 (Fanbooks, 2013 and 2014) and most recently Una casa on tornar (La Magrana, 2022).

She teaches screenwriting at the UPF, URL and for several masters programmes (Master in Film and Television Fiction at URL and Master in Screenwriting at UdL-GAC), as well as development programmes like Acció Viver by Dones Visuals.

Project

La muntanya més alta no és a l’Himàlaia – Novel

La muntanya més alta no és a l’Himàlaia is her fifth novel, dealing with the experience of mourning as a child and as an adult. It tells the story of Dr Paula Roig, a 40-year-old gynaecologist who in spring 2020 decides to spend lockdown with her two daughters and new partner, Pep, in the mountain home she inherited from her dead wife Ruth, a great alpinist who died two years earlier in a mountaineering accident. Her unfinished mourning process will return in this extreme situation, especially when her four-year-old daughter starts to say she is speaking with Ruth at night.

An intimate psychological thriller with a smattering of fantasy, from a vitalist standpoint, Marta Grau wanted to look at taboo subjects like death and mourning, focusing on how to carry on after life is cut short by a traumatic accident. Furthermore, she wanted to showcase the passion for mountaineering of female alpinists, who have a long history in this sport but much less visibility than their male counterparts.