Joaquim Gestí Bautista

Graduate of Classical Philology and a Doctoral degree holder in Translation from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He combines teaching and literary translation. He has translated several writers from Greek to Catalan as well as the most important works of Dino Buzzatti and Luigi Pirandello from Italian to Catalan. He has participated in the collection of Greek and Latin writers of the “Fundació Bernat Metge”, where he has covered the version of the history of Herodotus. He is co-author together with Montserrat Franquesa of the Catalan version of the “Diccionari de mitologia grega  i romana de Pierre Grimal” (2008) a reference book for students and aficionados of the classic era. He is editor of Visat, a journal of Literary Translation of PEN Català.