Llucia Ramis

Llucia Ramis, a Mallorcan journalist and writer who resides in Barcelona, has been editor-in-chief of the literary Quimera as well as director and presenter of the television book programme Això no és Islàndia. She is presently working with several media outlets including the daily La Vanguardia and the digital platform 3Cat. In 2018 she received the Anagrama Books Prize for her novel Les possessions (The Possessions, Anagrama and Asteroide, 2018), which has been translated into German, and also won the Seventh Cel de Salt Award. She has also published the novels Coses que et passen a Barcelona quan tens 30 anys (Things That Happen in Barcelona When You’re Thirty, Grup 62, 2008) and Egosurfing (Grup 62, 2010), winner of the 2010 Josep Pla Prize. Her Tot allò que una tarda morí amb les bicicletes (Everything That Died One Afternoon with the Bicycles, Anagrama and Asteroide, 2013) received the 2013 Time Out 2013 Best Creator Award. In 2024 she obtained the Libros del Asteroide Non-Fiction Award for her Un metro cuadrado. Diez pisos y treinta años en Barcelona (A Square Metre: Ten Flats and Thirty Years in Barcelona) an inquiry into the housing problem in Barcelona.