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The Dead Mule, 2026
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 into Catalan. 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 Schriftsteller (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’s 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 [Eve’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 articleswith a scientific touch.
"The original poems are lyrical with a musicality that resounds through the repetition of vowels and alliteration. I was also struck by the range of influences in the work, the poems are contemporary and utterly global in their references as the poet subtly weaves in echoes of other writers into her own texts.
Aymerich-Lemos is concerned with language, clearly evident in the poem ‘If the Words Entice Me In’, a poem about reading but also writing, a meta-poem in fact. Her interest in language isn’t confined to her native Catalan but also to her engagement with multiple languages on different levels and this has resulted in a long-term project, Multiple Versions, a platform for poetry translation that promotes minority languages alongside those more widely spoken.
My own translations therefore are part of an ongoing conversation, my own attempts to read her work. In the process of translation, I’m hoping to find echoes of the poet’s own voice in the rhythms and repetitions, a voice that is wry, cosmopolitan and yet also rooted in the rural and urban landscapes of her home in Catalonia."
Matthew Geden, Modern Poetry in Translation, UK, November 2024. p. 68-72./114.
"Her prize-winning poetry has appeared in several anthologies [...]. Both the rich imagery and the lyricism of the original Catalan are exquisitely rendered into English in her translations"
" A tireless cross-cultural activist and researcher, Aymerich conducted a study on Lablit and gender in Catalan Literature under the patronage of the Department of Culture (2012-2013) and is the founder of Multiple Versions, a multi-language project of cooperative translations among contemporary authors."
Prof. Ron Puppo, Loch Raven Review, USA, August 2019: 96-99/ 198-199.
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"With training in several languages and literatures, as well as a Degree in Biology, Sílvia Aymerich brings a diversified background to her writing. Her early work includes some of her own drawings, and her more recent production includes computer activities. She is an accomplished translator and prose writer as well."
Prof. K. McNerney, Malpaís Review, USA, Spring 2013: 97-99/ 221.