Iolanda Batallé (born 1971, in

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) is a

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writer and editor. She is the Director of Institut Ramon Llull since September, 2018. Born in Barcelona in 1971, Batallé is a Graduate in English Philology (

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and

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) and has a Master's in Business Administration from the

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Business School and the

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. Since 1990, she has collaborated with several media bodies such as ''El Observador'',

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, ''COM Ràdio'' and

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. She was Editor and Head of Press at Random ''House Mondadori'' (until 2009). Since 2009, she has been Editorial Director of the

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and Bridge imprints of the Enciclopèdia Catalana Group. Since 2016, Batallé has also been Editor and Founder of: Rata and Catedral, of the same publishing group. She has been also serving as a Professor of Master in Publishing and Master in Literary Creation at

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since 2008 and 2016 respectively. She has previously been a Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature in California. As a writer, she has published the novel ''La memòria de les formigues'' (The Memory of Ants) in 2009, and, in 2011, ''El límit exacte dels nostres cossos'' (The Precise Limit of Our Bodies), a collection of stories. In 2013, her novel ''Faré tot el que tu vulguis'' (I Will Do Whatever You Want) won the Prudenci Bertrana prize.

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