Sebastià Portell is one of Catalan literature’s rising stars: across multiple genres, he writes “both from and about the borderlands of texts and experience”. He is a winner of multiple prizes, the editor of the ground-breaking first anthology of Catalan LGBTQ poetry Amors sense casa (2018), and his first English translation Changing Trains, translated by Richard Huddleson, will be out with Fum d’Estampa press later this year. In June 2024 he visits Exeter as City of Literature writer in residence, so join the party as he discusses his work, his motivation, his activism, and the books we should all read from this fascinating corner of the Mediterranean.
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