Teresa Colom i Pich (born 12 December 1973) is an Andorran author and poet.

Biography

Maria Teresa Colom i Pich was born in

La Seu d'Urgell La Seu d'Urgell (; es, Seo de Urgel, formerly in ca, Urgell}) is a town located in the Catalan Pyrenees in Spain. La Seu d'Urgell is also the capital of the comarca Alt Urgell, head of the judicial district of la Seu d'Urgell and the seat of Bi ...

in 1973. She initially studied economics, graduating from

Pompeu Fabra University Pompeu Fabra University ( ca, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, UPF, ; es, link=no, Universidad Pompeu Fabra) is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia in Spain. The university was created by the Autonomous Government of Catalo ...

and went to work in a career in finance. Colom won a number of awards for her writing and left work to write full time. Colom won the

Miquel Martí i Pol Miquel Martí i Pol (; 19 March 1929 – 11 November 2003) was one of the most popular and widely-read Catalan poets of the twentieth century, publishing more than 1,500 poems. Biography At the age of 14, Martí i Pol started work in the offic ...

prize in 2000 and the

Maria Àngels Anglada prize The Maria Àngels Anglada Prize (in Catalan: ''Premi de Narrativa Maria Àngels Anglada''; ) is a Catalan literary award, given annually by the ''Institut Ramon Muntaner'' ("Ramon Muntaner Secondary School"), in Figueres (Spain), with the aim of c ...

in 2016. She is considered one of the most important poets in Andorra. Her works have been translated into a number of languages including Spanish, French and Italian. Since 2022 is the Director of

Fundació Ramon Llull The Fundació Ramon Llull (, English: "Ramon Llull Foundation"), also known by the acronym FRL, is an international organization constituted in 2008 in order to promote Catalan language and culture internationally. Its members are the following i ...

Works

* ''Com mesos de juny'', Edicions del Diari d'Andorra, 2001 * ''La temperatura d'uns llavis'', Edicions del Diari d'Andorra, 2002 * ''Elegies del final conegut'', Abadia Editors, 2005 * ''On tot és vidre'', Pagès Editors, 2009 * ''La meva mare es preguntava per la mort'', Pagès Editors, 2012 * ''La senyoreta Keaton i altres besties'' Empúries La Huerta Grande, 2015 *''Consciència,'' Empúries, 2019

References

* 1973 births Living people People from La Seu d'Urgell Andorran writers {{Europe-writer-stub