Mònica Batet, Marta Carnicero, Marina Sáez, Mar Grimalt, Andrea Genovart and Marta Pera Cucurell, selected in the strategic residents of the IRL – present


In the framework of the new line of grant in species and non -competitive concurrencia to take off to Cabo Residencas Internacionales in the Centers with which the Institut Ramon Llull has a collaboration of collaboration, creatives of the sides of literature and music will participate in Cuatro Residencias Estatégicas during the second half of the 2025.
Thanks to the Acuerdos, artists and authors of the Catalan Artistic and Cultural Act, they will be able to participate in the residents of Château de Lavigny, Art Omi, Literary Colloquium Berlin and Casamia.

The selected personas are:

  • Mònica Batet, resident of Château de Lavigny (Lavigny, Switzerland) from Julio 22 to August 18.
  • Marta Carnicero and Hernanz, a resident in Omi art from September 18 to October 16.
  • Marina Sáez, resident of OMO art from October 23 to November 13.
  • Mar Grimalt, resident in Casamia (Pesariis, Italy) from October 10 to 19.
  • Andrea Genovart, a resident of literary colloquium Berlin from November 15 to December 15.
  • Marta Pera Cucurell, resident of Literary Colloquium Berlin from November 15 to December 15.

Monica Batet (El Pont d’Armentera, 1976) is written in fiction in Catalan language. Study Catalan Philology at Rovira i Virgili University. He has written seis novels and a book of storytelling, and the Recibió Prize Just Manuel Casero in 2005 by his first novel, The gray room (Ed. Empúries, 2006). His novel, published in 2012, Don’t look at the river (Ed. Meteora, 2012) He was finalist for the Crexells Award. His last novel, A story is a stone thrown into the river (Angle Edicions, 2024) Ganó The Crexells Prize, and will be published in Castilian in 2025 with the publishing house Las Afueras. Some of their cooked ones have translated into the English, Polaco, Griego and Castellano.

Marta Carnicero and Hernanz (Barcelona, ​​1974) is naive in industrial and teacher of technology. Collaborates regularly with libraries of Barcelona, ​​betevé y Babeliahas a Master in Literary Creation by Pompeu Fabra University and is the author of three novels who have released the praise of critics. His last work, Matrioiss (2022), he has caught the filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, who praised his sensitive gaze and would need to rape as a weapon of war.

Marina Sáez (Barcelona, ​​1988). Architect of training, combines teaching with the creation of children’s books. Stands out for projects as The indiscreet window (MTM, 2023), which has recounted a special mention in Los Bolognagazziawards 2025, Measures Books of Catalan Authoria 2023 fear Ibbycat, y The lost museum (MTM, 2022), Finalist in Bologna and Galardonado with the Junceda 2023 prize. Also published Mix (MTM, 2021) and Bullying (Flamboyant, 2022). Su -adult Flood (2024), Prize Finestres 2022, has been awarded in the Comic Book Show in Valencia and Barcelona. Además, illustrate for advertising campaigns and part of the Pine Pixel Collective collective. I have exposed in cities like Barcelona, ​​Athena, Berlin and Chicago.

Grimalt sea (Felanitx, 1996) Graduated in Occupational Therapy and Musicoterapia. In 2021 inition his musical project. Sparks and corals (Microscope, 2023) It is his debut disco, I produce Joana Gomila and Laia Vallès, in which he combines the sounds of the machinery of the family negotio with his voice. After forming in scénic artes in the ESADIB, he has participated in different projects such as Interprete and as the creator of the sound space.

Andrea Genovart (Barcelona, ​​1993) It is a ticket in theory of literature and comparative literature for the University of Barcelona and has a more than a cultural management more than the factory of art and development of Madrid. He has formed part of the project of Contemporary Artistic Creation Espositivo (Madrid) and has written scripts for advertising spots. Currently collaborates in The countryin the press of diverse publishers and in the communication of the Librería la Central. Preferred consumption Obctuvo the 8th Prize Anagram Books of Novel and has been translated into Castilian by the same publisher.

Marta Pera Cucurell (Mataró, 1959) Professionally dedicated to literary translation and writing poetry. He has translated more than a hundred Works of Narrative, Ensayo and Poetry of Great Writers, current and Clásicos: Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Mansfield, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Flannery O’Connor. Shelley, Percy B. Shelley, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry James, William Faulkner, Joseph Conrad, Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, Peter Handke, Salman Rushdie, McCann colum The fifth essence of dustPoetry Collection Award 2018 and has recibrated the Jordi Domènech Prize for Poetry Translation Por Master of costume by Charles Simic (2014), the Prize of the Critics of the Valencian Writers and the Angel Crespo Prize for the Translation of the Book Letters to my mother of Sylvia Plath (2024), and the City of Barcelona Award 2023 by the translation of Orlando of Virginia Woolf.



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