Sílvia AYMERICH-LEMOS is an author from Barcelona, Catalonia, a member of the Pen Club and the AELC. As a translator, she has rendered a number of literary works from English, French, Occitan, Italian and German. As a writer, 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) and Els déus de Califòrnia [The Gods of California], City of Elx Narrative Prize 1993) and her latest collection of poems Bàlsams/Balms (Cork, 2022).
She has also authored two juvenile novels: 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 contributed a short story, Pell de lluna [Moon's skin], to the monography 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 several articles on the same topic in 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.