Iolanda Batallé (born 1971, in
Barcelona
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) is a
Catalan
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Catalonia
From, or related to Catalonia:
* Catalan language, a Romance language
* Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia
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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 (
University of Barcelona
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and
University of Southampton
, mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour
, type = Public research university
, established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...
) and has a Master's in Business Administration from the
ESADE Business School and the
University of Berkeley.
Since 1990, she has collaborated with several media bodies such as ''El Observador'',
Diari de Girona, ''COM Ràdio'' and
RAC 1. She was Editor and Head of Press at Random ''House Mondadori'' (until 2009).
Since 2009, she has been Editorial Director of the
La Galera
La Galera is a municipality in the comarca Montsià, in the province of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. In 2009 its population was 884. La Galera is part of the Taula del Sénia free association of municipalities.
History
Although it has not be ...
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
Universitat Pompeu Fabra 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.
References
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1971 births
Living people
Writers from Barcelona