Miquel Berga
Lecturer in English Literature at Pompeu Fabra University
He has published extensively on George Orwell and other Anglo-Saxon writers associated with the Spanish Civil War. He has written a prize-winning biography of John Langdon-Davies (1991) and curated such exhibitions as “Orwell: Viatge a una guerra” and “Centelles: Les vides d’un fotògraf, 1909-1985”. He has recently edited and translated into Catalan Nancy Johnstone’s autobiographical stories about the Spanish Civil War in the volume Un hotel a la costa. He is Chief Editor of the monthly Catalonia Today, a regular columnist for El PuntAvui, ex-president of APAC (Catalan Association of English Teachers), and vice-president of the Catalan PEN Centre. Miquel Berga is a Lecturer in English Literature at Pompeu Fabra University, where he is academic coordinator of the Master’s Degree programme "Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Thought".
Update: 27 April 2020
Contents
Memories without a place
Aitor García Solé, Marta Marín-Dòmine and Queralt Solé Barjau
Masha Gessen
Imagination and Democracy
The Future of Journalism. Lessons from George Orwell
Lecture by George Packer
Barcelona, from George Orwell to democracy
Lecture by Colm Tóibín
