Marta Marín-Dòmine

She was the director of Born Centre de Cultura i Memòria in Barcelona between 2021 and 2023. Previously, she was a lecturer at the Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo (Canada), where she was director of the Center for Memory and Testimony Studies. She also has worked with groups carrying out research into memory and testimonial literature at the University of Barcelona and the Université Paris-Sorbonne. Her research and literary creation revolve around exiles and memory, legacy and oblivion. Constantly working with the theme of memory, she has made the documentaries The Vengeance of the Apple: Argentinians in Toronto (2010) and Mémoire Juive du Quartier Marolles-Midi, 1930-1942 (2012). In 2017, she produced the audiovisual installation Je vous offre les oiseaux / Us ofereixo els ocells at the Museum of the History of Barcelona in homage to victims of the Holocaust., now an itinerant installation. She has published the book Fugir era el més bell que teníem (Club Editor, 2019), winner of the 2019 City of Barcelona Prize in the Essay category and the 2020 Serra d'or award for best novel. Recently, she has collaborated as an author in the Decameron of the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, which opened the 2020-2021 season.