Our Authors
Ponç Pons
Ponç Pons (Menorca, 1956) has a degree in Hispanic Philology and is a professor at the Institute of Catalan Language and Literature. He is author of, inter alia, the short story collection Vora un balcó sota un mar inaudible, the novels L’hivern a Belleville, Entre el cel i la terra, and Memorial de Tabarka, the play Lokus, the first volume of a poet’s diary Dillatari (Quaderns Crema, 2005), the aphorisms El rastre blau de les formigues (Quaderns Crema, 2014), and the diary Els ullastres de Manhattan (Quaderns Crema, 2020). As a poet, he has published Al Marge, Lira de Bova, Desert encès (Quaderns Crema, 1989), On s’acaba el sender, Estigma, El salobre, Abissínia, Pessoanes, Nura (Quaderns Crema, 2006—winner of the Viola d’Or in the Jocs Florals literary competition, the Serra d’Or Critics Prize, and the National Critics Prize), and Camp de Bard. He has also received the Cavall Verd Prize for Poetry Translation. His work, translated into several languages, appears in the most prestigious anthologies and, as an oeuvre, has been awarded the Ramon Llull Prize among others. He was also named Writer of the Year by the Balearic Islands Government.
