Anna Aguilar-Amat, poet-in-residence at Ledig House, re

Anna Aguilar-Amat, poet-in-residence at Ledig House, reading in NYC

Literature. Upstate NY, 30/10/2016

Since its founding in 1992, Writers Omi at Ledig House has hosted hundreds of authors and translators, representing more than fifty countries and welcoming published writers and translators of every type of literature. International, cultural and creative exchange is a foundation of their mission, and a wide distribution of national background is an important part of their selection process.

Anna Aguilar-Amat, poet-in-residence at Ledig House, reading in NYC

Anna Aguilar-Amat was born in Barcelona. She has a PHD from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona where she now teaches Terminology applied to Translation at the Translation Faculty. She published five collections of poems and was awarded several awards for Catalan poetry. Her poetic work is present in several anthologies of Catalan poets and she has been translated into Spanish, English, French, Italian, Sardinian, Macedonian, Finnish, Arabian, Turkish, Greek, German and Slovenian. She was included in the Anthology New European Poets by Wayne Miller & Kevin Prufer, Minnesota 2008.

Anna Aguilar-Amat at IFOA, Toronto, 2015