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Sílvia AYMERICH-LEMOS is an author from Barcelona, Catalonia. As a translator, she has rendered a number of literary works from English, French, Occitan, Italian and German. Her poetic work has been translated into Romanian by Ion Cristofor for Vatra Veche (2013) and into Italian by Gilberto Isella for Traduzionetradizione (2018). Included in several anthologies, she has also contributed poems translated by herself into French to Forum der Schrifsteller (1995), Le Pan des Muses (2012), and Mot Dit (2016), and into English to Malpaís Review (2013), The tree of peace turns green (2016), Loch Raven Review (2017) and with Kathleen McNerney to Modern Poetry in Translation (2024).
She has published, among others, La meva Europa [My own Europe], (Amadeu Oller Prize for young poets 1985), Berlín Zoo (Cassà’s Narrative Prize 1991), Els déus de Califòrnia [The Gods of California], City of Elx Narrative Prize 1993) and the collection of poems Bàlsams/Balms (Cork, 2022).
Regarding science-in-fiction, she has authored two juvenile novels using narrative structure for science communication: Ulls de pantera ([Panther Eyes], 1994) and Gelati! (1998), and co-authored a third, Roger d’Orlhac (2009), all of them later on translated into Spanish. Her digital novel on health issues, El bloc de l'Eva [Eva’s blog], (2009) was sponsored by the Catalan Department of Education. She has also contributed a short story, Pell de lluna [Moon's skin], to the monograph Científics Lletraferits (2014), later translated into French by Hélène Beaulieu (2020). As a researcher, she has conducted a study on LabLit and gender in Catalan literature under the patronage of the Department of Culture, and published articles on the same topic in several international academic publications, as well as press articles with a scientific touch.
Regarding science-in-fiction, she has authored two juvenile novels using narrative structure for science communication: Ulls de pantera ([Panther Eyes], 1994) and Gelati! (1998), and co-authored a third, Roger d’Orlhac (2009), all of them later on translated into Spanish. Her digital novel on health issues, El bloc de l'Eva [Eva’s blog], (2009) was sponsored by the Catalan Department of Education. She has also contributed a short story, Pell de lluna [Moon's skin], to the monograph Científics Lletraferits (2014), later translated into French by Hélène Beaulieu (2020). As a researcher, she has conducted a study on LabLit and gender in Catalan literature under the patronage of the Department of Culture, and published articles on the same topic in several international academic publications, as well as press articles with a scientific touch.
-> See her entry in VISAT - Catalan Pen Club Centre
-> Author's website here.
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