Teresa Colom i Pich
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Teresa Colom i Pich (born 12 December 1973) is an Andorran author and poet. She won the Miquel Martí i Pol prize in 2000 and the Maria Àngels Anglada prize in 2016. She has published several collections of poetry, a collection of short stories, and a novel. Colom is the director of the Fundació Ramon Llull.
Maria Teresa Colom i Pich was born in La Seu d'Urgell in 1973.[1] She initially studied economics, graduating from Pompeu Fabra University, and went to work in a career in finance. Colom won a number of awards for her writing and left work to write full time. Colom won the Miquel Martí i Pol prize in 2000 and the Maria Àngels Anglada prize in 2016.[2] The Anglada prize was awarded for her collection of five short stories, La senyoreta Keaton i altres bêsties, described as "half children's story, half Gothic horror".[2] Colom's works have been translated into a number of languages including Spanish, French, Mandarin and Italian.[3][4] In 2015 Colom was the curator of the Barcelona Poetry Week.[5] Since 2022 Colom is the director of Fundació Ramon Llull, an organisation to promote the Catalan language and culture.[6]
In 2019, Colom published her first novel, Consciència, a science fiction work set in a future where consciousness can survive death through preservation in computer systems.[3]
In 2020, Colom's poem Eix featured in the thirty "Poets Under Pressure" series commissioned by Catalan newspaper El Nacional.[1] Her short story, The Gravedigger's Son, was published in English by The Guardian for their 'Translation Tuesdays' series, translated by Mara Faye Lethem.[7] The story was described as "Tim Burton crossed with the Brothers Grimm".[8][7]
Works
- Com mesos de juny, Edicions del Diari d'Andorra, 2001[9]
- La temperatura d'uns llavis, Edicions del Diari d'Andorra, 2002
- Elegies del final conegut, Abadia Editors, 2005
- On tot és vidre, Pagès Editors, 2009
- La meva mare es preguntava per la mort, Pagès Editors, 2012[4]
- La senyoreta Keaton i altres besties Empúries La Huerta Grande, 2015
- Consciència, Empúries, 2019[3][10][11]
References
- 1 2 "Poetes sota pressió: Teresa Colom". La llança. 6 June 2020.
- 1 2 Vàzquez, Eva (9 June 2016). "Teresa Colom narra la poètica dels estranys". El Punt Avui (in Catalan). Retrieved 5 November 2022.
- 1 2 3 "Teresa Colom reflexiona en la seva primera novel·la sobre la immortalitat de la consciència gràcies a la tecnologia". www.regio7.cat (in Catalan). 4 December 2019.
- 1 2 "Preguntar-se per la mort". BonDia Diari digital d'Andorra. (in Catalan).
- ↑ "Teresa Colom". Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
- ↑ "Fundació Ramon Llull". www.llull.cat. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
- 1 2 Colom, Teresa (31 May 2016). "Translation Tuesday: Miss Keaton and Other Beasts by Teresa Colom – extract". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
- ↑ "Colom, Teresa". Anthologies of Young Poets. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
- ↑ Revue des deux mondes (in French). 2001.
- ↑ "Teresa Colom debuta en novela con un cataclismo, la inmortalidad y conciencias informatizadas". Europa Press. 4 December 2019. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ↑ "Teresa Colom imagina un món on les ments no tenen cos". Ara.cat (in Catalan). 20 December 2019. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
