Irene Solà

Irene Solà (born 1990, Malla) is a Catalan writer and an artist. She has exhibited her work at the CCCB in Barcelona and the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Her first book of poems Bèstia won the 2012 Amadeu Oller Prize and Dikes novel, the 2017 Documenta Prize.[1][2][3]

Irene Solà
Born1990
Malla, Catalonia, Spain
LanguageCatalan
NationalitySpanish

She has a degree in fine arts from the University of Barcelona and a master’s in literature, film and visual culture from the University of Sussex. Her first book of poems, Bèstia (Galerada, 2012), was awarded the Amadeu Oller Poetry Prize and has been translated into English (as Beast, Shearsman Books, 2017). Her first novel, Els dics (The Dams, L’Altra Editorial, 2018), won the Documenta prize and was awarded a grant for literary creation by the Catalan Department of Culture. In 2018, she was a resident writer at the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center of George Mason University (Virginia, United States) and in late 2019 she was selected to participate in the Art Omi: Writers Ledig House programme (New York). In 2019, she was awarded the Premi Llibres Anagrama de Novel·la for Canto jo I la muntanya balla (I Sing and the Mountain Dances). The same year, she also received the Núvol Prize, and the Cálamo Prize for the Spanish edition of the book. In 2020 she won the European Union Prize for Literature[4] and the Maria Àngels Anglada Prize.[5]

Works
  • Canto jo i la muntanya balla (Barcelona: Anagrama, 2019)
  • Dikes (L'Altra Editorial, 2018)
  • Bèstia (Galerada, 2012)

References
  1. "Shearsman Books 2017 Titles | Alphabetical by Author". www.shearsman.com. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
  2. "Irene Solà guanya el premi Documenta 2017". Ara.cat (in Catalan). 2017-11-24. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
  3. Gaillard, Valèria. "Poesia d'objectes impoètics - 13 juny 2012". El Punt Avui (in Catalan). Retrieved 2019-03-22.
  4. White, Cristina Tomàs. "Catalan writer Irene Solà wins 2020 EU Prize for Literature". www.catalannews.com. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
  5. Press, Europa (2020-09-21). "Irene Solà gana el Premi Maria Àngels Anglada con 'Canto jo i la muntanya balla'". www.europapress.es. Retrieved 2020-11-12.
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