Bio

Helena González Fernández is a professor of Galician and Portuguese Studies and researcher at the ADHUC Centre for Research on Theory, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Barcelona. A specialist in gender/sexuality studies and contemporary literature, she regularly translates between Galician, Portuguese and Catalan, in addition to Spanish.

She is the Galician translator of Mil cretins (A Thousand Morons) by Quim Monzó and La guia fantàstica (The Fantastic Guide) by Josep Albanell, but she has devoted her career more fully to poetry. She began with Estimada Marta (Dear Marta) by Miquel Martí i Pol and Capital de la douleur (Capital of Pain) by Paul Éluard (with Laurence Brault) and at the same time produced the Spanish version of two anthologies of Galician poetry. She recently published the Galician-Spanish edition of two poetry collections by Ana Romaní (Basálticas and A vertebra). In the field of essays she has translated the philosopher Fina Birulés into Galician and the Brazilian Afrofeminist Joice Berth into Spanish. She is currently preparing a Galician anthology of 21st century Catalan poetry.

Project

She will translate Mireia Calafell's poems into Galician.