Anna Gual is one of Catalonia’s most vital poetic voices, writing in Catalan. Her explorations, and the singular ways she embarks on and writes about them, draw in poets, readers, and critics alike. She has received several prestigious awards for her poetry, including the Miquel de Palol Prize, the Bernat Vidal i Tomàs Prize, the Senyoriu Ausiàs March Prize, and the Pare Colom Prize for Mediterranean Poetry.

Gual’s first book, Implosions (2008), now in its fourth edition, was published when she was twenty-two. Her blog, No caic, em tiro, won the 2012 Prize for the Best Blog Written in Catalan. Since then, she has consistently published prize-winning collections of poetry: L’ésser solar (2013), Símbol 47 (2015), Molsa (2016), El tubercle (2016), Altres semideus (2019), Ameba (2020), and Les ocultacions (2022). Additionally, she edited Jo tinc mort petita (2025).

In 2021–2022 was artist-in-residence at the Palau de la Música Catalana. Her poems have been translated into numerous languages and appear in international journals including Circumference, Four Way Review, Harvard Review, Hyperion, Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry, Poetry International, and, forthcoming, World Literature Today.

Her books have been translated into French (Implosions, Les ocultacions), Italian (Il tubero), and Spanish (Las ocultaciones). Two anthologies of her poems have also been published, collecting her most notable works, in Spanish (Innombrable) and English (Unnameable). In addition, individual poems have been translated into numerous languages—including English, German, Portuguese, Galician, Croatian, Slovenian, and Russian—and published in international journals. Some of them can also be read on Lyrikline.

She has appeared at festivals across Europe and internationally, including the 2024 Sant Jordi USA Festival, the 2024 European Poetry Festival in the UK, and the Days of Poetry and Wine Festival in Slovenia, and has given readings in Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Croatia, and beyond. Her work is marked by a deep interest in imagery and language, and addresses themes such as nature, the body, mysticism, and writing itself.

You can find more about her work at  www.annagual.cat