EDUARD SANAHUJA YLL

Eduard Sanahuja Yll (Barcelona, 1953) has been a full professor in the Department of Language and Literature Teaching at the University of Barcelona, where he is currently an honorary professor.

In poetry, he has published El gos del Galiot (Edicions del Mall, 1981); Mirador (Editions del Mall, 1983); Doble joc (Columna Edicions, 1988); En defensa pròpia (Editorial Bromera, 1994); Compàs d’espera (Editorial Bromera, 2006); El llançador d’espases (Pagès editors, 2013); the anthology Sang barata (AdiA Edicions, 2015); Teories del no (Edicions de 1984, 2016); Monòlits. Frases fetes per commemorar desfetes (AdiA editions, 2019); Poemes de Calvus (La Garúa-Tanit, 2020); Magnicidi (AdiA Editions, 2022); and the anthology El temps dorm sol (Pagès editors, 2024).

It has been included in several anthologies in Spain, Mexico and Colombia, and has participated in poetic events in different places around the world: Mexico, Portugal, Canada, United States of America, Venezuela, Colombia, United Kingdom…

As a translator, he has translated into Catalan part of the poetic work of Blaise Cendrars, Prosa del Transsiberià (1992), Capsa d’escats (2008), by the Aragonese poet Javier Carnicer, and 51 poemes de Catul (AdiA edicions, 2024).

In the area of the dissemination and promotion of poetry, in 1989 he founded, with three other poets, the Aula de Poesia de Barcelona.

He has been awarded several prizes, including the “Jocs Florals de Barcelona” with the book Teories del no (2016).