As part of the New Line of In-Kind, Non-Competitive Grands For Undertaking International Residences at Centers with Which the Institut Ramon Llull Has a Collaboration Agrement, Six creators From the Fields of Literature and Music Will Take Part in Four Strategic Residences Duing the Second Half of 2025.
Thanks to thisgrements, Artists and Authors from the Catalan Artistic and Cultural Sphere Will Be Able to participate in the residences At Château de Lavigny, Omi art, Literary Colloquium Berlin and Casamia.
The Selected Participants Are:
- Monica Batetresident at château de lavigny (Lavigny, Switzerland) From 22 Judy to 18 August.
- Marta Carnicero and Hernanzresident at art omi from 18 sepebre to 16 october.
- Marina Sáezresident at Art Omi from 23 October to 13 November.
- Grimalt searesident at Casamia (Pesariis, Italy) from 10 to 19 october.
- Andrea Genovartresident at literary colloquium Berlin from 15 ninember to 15 Decremb.
- Marta Pera Cucurellresident at literary colloquium Berlin from 15 ninember to 15 Decremb.
Monica Batet (El Pont d’Armentera, 1976) is a Catalan-Language Fiction Writer. She studied Catalan Philology at the Rovira i Virgili University. She has written six novels and a collection of short stories, and in 2005 Received the Just Manuel Casero Prize for Her First Novel, The gray room (Empúries, 2006). Her Second Novel, Don’t look at the river (Meteora, 2012), Published in 2012, was at the finalist for the Crexells Prize. HER LATEST NOVEL, A story is a stone thrown into the river (Angle Edicions, 2024), Won the Crexells Prize and Will Be published in Spanish in 2025 by Las afuereras. Some of Her Short Stories have been translated into English, Polish, Greek and Spanish.
Marta Carnicero and Hernanz (Barcelona, 1974) is an industrial engineer and technology teacher. She collaborates regularly with libraries in Barcelona, betevé and BabeliaHolds a Master’s in Creative Writing From the Pompeu Fabra University and is the Author of Three Novels Acclaimed by Critics. HER LATEST WORK, Matrioiss (2022), captivated Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, Who Praised Its Sensive and Essential perspective on Sexual Violence As a Weapon of War.
Marina Sáez (Barcelona, 1988), An Architect by Training, Combines Teaching with the Creation of Children’s Books. She is recognized for projects such as The indiscreet window (MTM, 2023), Which Received to Special Mention at the Bolognalagazzi Awards 2025, and WAS Selected Among the Best Catalan-Authored Books of 2023 by Ibbycat; and The lost museum (MTM, 2022), at the finalist at Bologna and Winner of the 2023 Junceda Award. She has been published Mix (MTM, 2021) and Bullying (Flamboyant, 2022). HERD GRAPHIC NOVEL Flood (2024), Winner of the Finestres Prize 2022, you have been Awarded at the Valencia and Barcelona Comic Salons. In Addition, She illustrates Advertising Campaigns and is part of the Pine Pixel Collective. Her work has been exhibited in cities such as Barcelona, Athens, Berlin and Chicago.
Grimalt sea (Felanitx, 1996) Holds degrees in Occupational Therapy and Music Therapy. In 2021, She Began Her Musical Project. Sparks and corals (Microscope, 2023), Her Album, Produced by Joana Gomila and Laia Vallès, combines Sounds from Her Her Family’s Machinery Business with Her Voice. After Training in the Performing Arts at ESADIB, she has taken part in varous projects bush as a performer and as a creator of soundscapes.
Andrea Genovart . She has been part of the contemporary artistic creation project Espositive (Madrid) and Has Written Scripts for Advertising Campaigns. She Currently Collaborates with The countryWorks with the Press Departments of Several Publishers, and Contributions to Communications at the Central Bookshop. Inher novel Preferred consumption Won the 8th Anagrama Prize for Fiction and Has Been Translated Into Spanish by the Same Publisher.
Marta Pera Cucurell (Mataró, 1959) is a Professional Literary Translator and Poet. She has translated More Than to Hundred Works of Narrative, Essays and Poetry by Major Writers, Both Contemporary and Classic: Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Platch, Katherine Mansfield, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Flannery O’Connor Wharton, Mary Shelley, Percy B. Shelley, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry James, William Faulkner, Joseph Conrad, Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, Peter Handke, Salman Rushdie, McCann column … She is the Author of the Poetry Collection The fifth essence of dustWinner of the Recvll Poetry Prize 2018, and Has Received The Jordi Domènech Prize for Poetry Translation For Master of costume by Charles Simic (2014), The Valencian Writers’ Critics Prize, and the Ángel Crespo Prize for Her Translation of Sylvia Plath’s Letters to My Mother (2024), As Well As the Barcelona City Prize 2023 for Her Translation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.
