livestream: Wilder Winds with Bel Olid and Laura McGloughlin

Thursday 20th January

livestream - 7pm - free entry

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Join author Bel Olid and translator Laura McGloughlin via ZOOM to hear tales of freedom and power in Wilder Winds

In Wilder Winds, writer and translator Bel Olid presents a stunning collection of short stories that draw on notions of individual freedom, abuses of power, ingrained social violence, life on the outskirts of society, and inevitable differences. Alongside these she places small acts of kindness capable of changing the world and making it a better place. Like a flower that stubbornly grows and blooms in the cracks of the pavement. Olid’s work seeks out beauty without renouncing truth, and never avoids conflict or intimacy. Wilder Winds creates scenes and fragile, yet hardy characters that will stay with the reader for years to come.

Bel Olid is a writer and translator living and working in Catalonia. They  are  president of the Catalan Writers’ Association and in 2017 stood for the Catalan parliament as a representative of the CUP party.

Laura McGloughlin is an Irish translator living and  working in London. Having translated many works by both Catalan and Spanish writers, in 2012 she appeared as a panellist for New Spanish Books.

‘Bel Olid tells you the most terrible things in the most beautiful way.’ -Marta Rojals

‘Charming and comforting on the one hand; like a vast abyss of violence and danger, it is stimulating and

disturbing on the other.’ -Júlia Sentís, Núvol

‘Simple, everyday descriptions transport the reader to places and moments, producing sensations that we

can all relate to ... an excellent read.’ -Nosaltresllegim.cat

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