Anna Guitart is a journalist and screenwriter specialising in literature and books. She served as curator for Barcelona’s literary and artistic programme as guest of honour at the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL). She began her career at Ràdio Barcelona before working on the programme La República with Joan Barril on COM Ràdio. She was part of the team behind the documentary Setembres, directed by Carles Bosch. She has worked as a screenwriter on programmes including De què va (Canal 33), El bocamoll (TV3) and Via Llibre (Canal 33), and directed the second season of Savis (Canal 33). She has presented and directed literary and interview programmes, such as the books segment on Tria33 (Canal 33) and Tot el temps del món (Canal 33). She has contributed to the programme Tot es mou (TV3), El matí de Catalunya Ràdio and the newspaper Ara, and has served as editorial advisor for the magazine El món d’ahir.

Antònia Andúgar i Andreu was born in 1965 in Almassora (Castelló). She has a degree in Translation and Interpreting from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a Master's in Public Management from ESADE..

He began his career in the performing arts sector, working in different areas and projects of the Grup Focus company (1990-2005), highlighting the Teatre Romea Management, the management of the stage director Calixto Bieito and the management of co-productions and international tours. Later he joined the team of the audiovisual producer Benecé (2006-2009) as head of the children's and family area, leading several audiovisual and scenic projects, as well as international promotion in forums and markets.

From the private sphere, he joined the public sector in 2010 as Manager of the Performing Arts Center of Terrassa (with two theaters and a scenic production center) and Executive Director of the TNT-Terrassa Noves Tendències Festival. In 2014 she was appointed Director of the Market Area of the Institut Català d’Empreses Culturals, with the mission of supporting the internationalization of cultural companies and strengthening their competitiveness in both national and international markets. In this regard, she developed different actions such as the promotion of strategic markets of live arts or the organization of book stands, audiovisual or music at fairs around the world.

Izaskun Arretxe Irigoien (Barcelona, 1969) holds a Degree in Catalan Philology from the University of Barcelona, and a Master’s Degree from La Trobe University, Melbourne, with the dissertation “The Theory of Love in the Poetry of Ausiàs March”. She was a Catalan teacher at this university between 1993 and 1995. She has been the Director of Department of Literature and Humanities since 2016. In November 2024, she resumed her functions at the Institut Ramon Llull after leading the Institució de les Lletres from September 2021 to October 2024.

She headed the editorial and production department at the publishing house Quaderns Crema (1997), and was part of the editorial and production team at Editorial Anagrama (1998-2003). She was also the General Manager of Critèria (2003-2007), and Editorial Director of Ara Llibres (2008-2016). Between 2012 and 2014, she was a member of the Board of Directors of the Catalan Publishers Association, and its Vice-President from 2014 to 2016.

Josep-Anton Fernàndez (Barcelona, 1963) holds a degree in Catalan Philology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a PhD in Modern Languages (Catalan literature) from the University of Cambridge. He has been an Associate Professor in the Arts and Humanities Department at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, where he directed the Bachelor’s Degree in Catalan Language and Literature, and a Senior Lecturer in Catalan studies at Queen Mary University of London, where he founded the Centre for Catalan Studies.

He has taught at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom) and at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy), and has been a visiting professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland) and at the University of Chicago (USA). He is a recognised specialist in contemporary Catalan literature and culture, on which he has published books and more than forty articles and chapters. His research focuses on issues of gender and sexuality, queer theory, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies.

Josep-Anton Fernàndez was awarded the prestigious Ausiàs March Poetry Prize of Gandia, was a member of the Executive Committee of Plataforma per la Llengua, and is a board and steering committee member of Fundació Enllaç, an organisation that provides support and services to older LGTBI+ adults.