Anna Aguilar-Amat

Anna Aguilar-Amat, a poet and linguist, was a tenured lecturer in the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). She has subsequently been engaged in academic research in the fields of linguistics, lexical semantics, terminology, and translation. She is a founder of the QUARKpoesia collective, which works to promote little-known poets and writers in rarely translated languages. Notable among her published works are the poetry collections Petrolier (Oil Tanker, Editorial Denes, 2003), winner of the 2000 Gold Wild Rose Prize in the Barcelona Jocs Florals literary competition; Música i escorbut (Music and Scurvy, Edicions 62, 2002), winner of the 2001 Màrius Torres Prize; and Càrrega de color (Load of Colour, Editorial Meteora, 2011), an approach to the domain of science through an exploration of colour. Among her recent publications are Argila (Ur, Uruk, Ištar) (Clay: Ur, Uruk, Ishtar, published by Tres i Quatre, 2018), and L’efecte Morgana (The Morgana Effect, Pagès Editors, 2020). Her poems have also been published in several anthologies, and her poetry collections translated into ten languages.

Anna Aguilar-Amat is part of the poetic residency programme Magmas within Radical Science project.