Blanca Llum Vidal and Vicenç Altaió
In this dialogue, moderated by the writer Adrià Pujol Cruells, Blanca Llum Vidal and Vicenç Altaió will discuss their latest books, Tan bonica i tirana (Proa, 2025) and El somni de la subversió (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2025). From memories of Barcelona in the 1970s and 1980s to frenzied love and wild desire in a transparent and obscure, beautiful and tyrannical collection of poems. The conversation will conclude with a poetry reading by Blanca Llum Vidal, winner of the 2024 Carles Riba Prize, and a reading by Vicenç Altaió of excerpts from his memoirs.
Blanca Llum Vidal is a poet, philologist and social worker. She has published the poetry collections La cabra que hi havia (La Cantàrtida, 2009), Nosaltres i tu (Leonard Muntaner, 2011), Punyetera flor (La Breu Edicions, 2014), Aquest amor que no és u (Ultramarinos, 2018) and Amor a la brega (Pagès Editors, 2018), as well as poetic prose in Homes i ocells (Club Editor, 2012) and the chronicle Maripasoula: crònica d’un viatge a la Guaiana francesa (Club Editor, 2015). Her most recent books include La princesa sou vós (Club Editor, 2022), No cometràs adulteri (Fragmenta Editorial, 2024) and Tan bonica i tirana (Proa, 2025 – Carles Riba Prize for Poetry).
Vicenç Altaió is an essayist, cultural researcher, poet, art critic, curator of literary, scientific and artistic exhibitions, theatre translator, editor of avant-garde magazines and an opinion columnist. He was the director of the KRTU (Culture, Research, Technology, Universals) and Arts Santa Mònica centres. He is currently president of the Joan Brossa Foundation. His latest books include El radar americà. Arquitectura, art, comunicació visual i Guerra Freda (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2024) and El somni de la subversió (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2025).
In collaboration with: Proa and Galaxia Gutenberg
Useful information
When: Friday 4 April at 6.30 p.m.
Where: Sarrià – J.V. Foix Library
Access Prior registration required
Moderator: Adrià Pujol Cruells
