Anna Ballbona
Writer and journalist
A writer, journalist, and literary critic, she was a finalist for the Anagrama Books Prize with her first novel Joyce i les gallines (Anagrama, 2016). She has also published the collection of poems Conill de gàbia (LaBreu, 2012) and La mare que et renyava era un robot (winner of the 2008 Amadeu Oller Prize). She presently writes for the daily Ara and the magazines El Temps and Serra d’Or, as well as working in the Catalunya Ràdio literary programme Ciutat Maragda and the SER Catalunya programme El Balcó. Her second novel, No sóc aquí (Anagrama, 2020) was awarded the Anagrama Prize for the Novel, and her most recent book is Elles competeixen (Ara Llibres, 2022).
Update: 22 March 2022