Collective residencies / Mireia Calafell Translator's Seminar / Olot
GUILLERMO ÁLVAREZ SELLÁN
From Monday, 9 June 2025 to Friday, 13 June 2025

Bio
Born in Asturias, Guillermo has been driven by his passion for languages since his early childhood. Barcelona and Heidelberg marked the milestones of his linguistic biography, with Catalan and German playing a prominent role in his professional career. Over the years, he grew to be a passionate polyglot and an expert on minoritized languages of Europe. He works as a translator, university lecturer and PhD researcher (main research area "influence of linguistic ideologies on standardization processes") and tries to make linguistic diversity advocacy an integral part of his scope of activities within those professional fields. His current focus is on both his PhD thesis and several translation projects fostering the diffusion of minoritized languages.
Project
She will translate Mireia Calafell's poems into German.