As part of the new line of in-kind, non-competitive grants for undertaking international residencies at centres with which the Institut Ramon Llull has a collaboration agreement, six creators from the fields of literature and music will take part in four strategic residencies during the second half of 2025.

Thanks to these agreements, artists and authors from the Catalan artistic and cultural sphere will be able to participate in the residencies at Château de Lavigny, Art Omi, Literarisches Colloquium Berlin and Casamia.

The selected participants are:

• Mònica Batet, resident at Château de Lavigny (Lavigny, Switzerland) from 22 July to 18 August.
• Marta Carnicero i Hernanz, resident at Art Omi from 18 September to 16 October.
• Marina Sáez, resident at Art Omi from 23 October to 13 November.
• Mar Grimalt, resident at Casamia (Pesariis, Italy) from 10 to 19 October.
• Andrea Genovart, resident at Literarisches Colloquium Berlin from 15 November to 15 December.
• Marta Pera Cucurell, resident at Literarisches Colloquium Berlin from 15 November to 15 December.

Mònica Batet (El Pont d’Armentera, 1976) is a Catalan-language fiction writer. She studied Catalan Philology at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. She has written six novels and a collection of short stories, and in 2005 received the Just Manuel Casero Prize for her first novel, L’habitació grisa (Empúries, 2006). Her second novel, No et miris el riu (Meteora, 2012), published in 2012, was a finalist for the Crexells Prize. Her latest novel, Una història és una pedra llançada al riu (Angle Edicions, 2024), won the Crexells Prize and will be published in Spanish in 2025 by Las afueras. Some of her short stories have been translated into English, Polish, Greek and Spanish.

Marta Carnicero i Hernanz (Barcelona, 1974) is an industrial engineer and technology teacher. She collaborates regularly with Biblioteques de Barcelona, Betevé and Babelia, holds a Master’s in Creative Writing from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and is the author of three novels acclaimed by critics. Her latest work, Matrioixques (2022), captivated filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, who praised its sensitive and essential perspective on sexual violence as a weapon of war.

Marina Sáez (Barcelona, 1988), an architect by training, combines teaching with the creation of children’s books. She is recognised for projects such as La Finestra Indiscreta (MTM, 2023), which received a Special Mention at the BolognaRagazzi Awards 2025, and was selected among the Best Catalan-authored Books of 2023 by Ibbycat; and El Museu Perdut (MTM, 2022), a finalist at Bologna and winner of the 2023 Junceda Award. She has also published Barrejacolors (MTM, 2021) and Bullying (Flamboyant, 2022). Her adult graphic novel Aiguagim (2024), winner of the Finestres Prize 2022, has been awarded at the Valencia and Barcelona Comic Salons. In addition, she illustrates advertising campaigns and is part of the Pink Pixel Collective. Her work has been exhibited in cities such as Barcelona, Athens, Berlin and Chicago.

Mar Grimalt (Felanitx, 1996) holds degrees in Occupational Therapy and Music Therapy. In 2021, she began her musical project. Espurnes i Coralls (Microscopi, 2023), her debut album, produced by Joana Gomila and Laia Vallès, combines sounds from her family’s machinery business with her voice. After training in the performing arts at ESADIB, she has taken part in various projects both as a performer and as a creator of soundscapes.

Andrea Genovart (Barcelona, 1993) holds a degree in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from the University of Barcelona and a Master’s in Cultural Management from the Factoría de Arte y Desarrollo in Madrid. She has been part of the contemporary artistic creation project Espositivo (Madrid) and has written scripts for advertising campaigns. She currently collaborates with El País, works with the press departments of several publishers, and contributes to communications at the La Central bookshop. Her novel Consum preferent won the 8th Anagrama Prize for Fiction and has been translated into Spanish by the same publisher.

Marta Pera Cucurell (Mataró, 1959) is a professional literary translator and poet. She has translated more than a hundred works of narrative, essays and poetry by major writers, both contemporary and classic: Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Mansfield, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Flannery O’Connor, Edith Wharton, Mary Shelley, Percy B. Shelley, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry James, William Faulkner, Joseph Conrad, Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, Peter Handke, Salman Rushdie, Colum McCann… She is the author of the poetry collection La quinta essència de la pols, winner of the Recvll Poetry Prize 2018, and has received the Jordi Domènech Prize for Poetry Translation for Mestre de disfresses by Charles Simic (2014), the Valencian Writers’ Critics Prize, and the Ángel Crespo Prize for her translation of Sylvia Plath’s Letters to My Mother (2024), as well as the Barcelona City Prize 2023 for her translation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.