Carlota Gurt

Xavier Mas Craviotto and Carlota Gurt in conversation.

Carlota Gurt (Barcelona, 1976) is a translator and writer. She studied Translation and Interpreting, Humanities, Business Studies, East Asian Studies and Audiovisual Communication. Between 1998 and 2010, she worked in the performing arts. Subsequently, she made the leap to the world of translation. For five years she worked in theatrical surtitling and corporate translation. She now focuses on editorial translation, mainly novels, from German and English into Catalan. Carlota Gurt has published three works of fiction, originally written in Catalan. In 2019 she won the Mercè Rodoreda Prize with her first book, the short story collection Cabalgar toda la noche (Navona). In 2020, she published Sola (Libros del Asteroide), her first novel, and in 2023 the book of short stories Biografía del Fuego (Libros del Asteroide). With an impetuous and very visual prose, the author draws a literary universe of her own and full of strength. Some of her works have been translated into English, Italian and Greek.