Bio

With a degree in teaching from the University of Vic and in speech therapy from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Montse Homs has worked in education for more than 30 years. She studied writing at the Ateneu Barcelona School of Writing.

In 2008 she published Els Murris (Editorial L'Àlber), teaching material that includes a dozen illustrated stories. She has been writing full-time since 2013. Between 2013 and 2018 she published several stories in the magazine Cavall Fort. In 2020 Homs won the 29th Guillem Cifre de Colonya Award with the novel Arracades d'avellaner (Earrings on the Hazelnut Tree) (Barcanova) and published Faules poètiques (Poetic Fables) (Kalandraka) in March 2022.

She engages in recitals and gives workshops and talks in schools, libraries and bookshops. 

Project

Joc que viu i fa caliu (A Game That Lives and Makes You Feel Warm) – book of children's poetry

Joc que viu i fa caliu is a poetry collection for children made up of a core poem that talks about poetry and around 30 others on traditional games. The title alludes to the poetry collection Del joc i del foc (On Play and Fire) (1946) by Carles Riba. The work is structured into six chapters in which the verses Del joc i del foc appear as the collection progresses, since the first verse of each stanza becomes the title of a chapter. Within the chapters we find the poems on the games, which have their own entity and at the same time refer back to one or more verses of the main poem. They begin with the poem "Baldufa", which conveys the impetus to the 30-odd poems that follow, taking on new forms and content across each chapter. The latter are inspired by games as they are known, but reflect the present moment, stepping back from morality and didacticism.