Gemma Gorga has a PhD in Spanish Language and Literature from the University of Barcelona, where she currently works as a Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature. In 1996, she won the Rosa Leveroni Prize for poetry with Ocellania (1997) (Bordology), followed by El desordre de les mans (2003) (Disorder of the Hands); Instruments òptics (2005) (Optic Instruments); Llibre dels minuts (Book of Minutes, 2006) in which she uses prose poems as a tool for knowledge of her own experience and Mur (2015), for which he won the Liberisliber Lira Prize in 2016. Within non-fiction she has published with Antoni Lozano La cuina natural. Salut, tradició i plaer a taula (2004) (Within the Natural Kitchen: Health, Tradition and Pleasure at the Table), which combine in equal portion tradition, gastronomy and dietetics and Indi visible (2018), an intimist story about her stay in India which was awarded the Liberisliber Pensa Prize in 2018. Some of her poems have been included in anthologies and translated into Basque, English, Slovenian and Polish.
- Last updated: 2018-10-24
- Text main source: Institut Ramon Llull: Poetàrium
