Tina Vallès

Co-editor of the story portal Paper de vidre and columnist in the newspaper Vilaweb. She has published several books of short stories for adults such as L'aeroplà del Raval (LaBreu, 2006), Un altre got d'absenta (LaBreu, 2012) and El parèntesi més llarg (Edicions Proa, 2013; Mercè Rodoreda award) and also for the youngest, such as Bocabava (Fragmenta, 2016), Totes les pors (La Galera, 2016), La marieta sense taques (Bambú, 2017), Crec (Kireei, 2017), Erra (Comanegra, 2018), Els pòstits del señor Nohisoc (La Galera, 2021; Folch i Torres award), Mira (Animallibres, 2021), La primera ostra (Babulinka, 2023) and La llegenda de Sant Jordi de cap per avall (Comanegra, 2024), some of them translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Turkish or Slovenian. She debuted as a novelist with Maic (Baula, 2011) and in 2017 she published La memoria de l'arbre (Anagrama), winner of the Llibres Anagrama prize and the 15th Maria Àngels Anglada prize and the Jean Monet prize in France, and translated into 18 languages. Her latest novel is thanks to Italo Calvino: El señor Palomar a Barcelona (Anagrama, 2021), and has been translated into Italian. Since November 2023, she is also one of the people responsible for the biweekly podcast on children's and young adult literature Poc Cas (Vilaweb).