Bel Olid (Mataró, Barcelona, 1977) teaches at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona alongside their work as a writer, translator and feminist activist. Their first novel Una terra solitària won the Documenta Prize in 2010 whilst Crida ben fort, Estela! was awarded the 2009 Qwerty Prize for Best Children’s Book of the Year. Alongside their fiction, which confronts issues of gender, sexuality and abuse, they have explored feminist struggles in the 21st century through several essays and have translated, amongst others, Judith Butler’s seminal Gender Trouble.

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