Teresa Colom i Pich

Teresa Colom i Pich (born 12 December 1973) is an Andorran author and poet. She won the Miquel Martí i Pol prize in 2000 and the Maria Àngels Anglada prize in 2016. She has published several collections of poetry, a collection of short stories, and a novel. Colom is the director of the Fundació Ramon Llull.

Teresa Colom i Pich
Born	12 December 1973 La Seu d'Urgell
Nationality	Andorran

Biography

Maria Teresa Colom i Pich was born in La Seu d'Urgell in 1973.^[1] She initially studied economics, graduating from Pompeu Fabra University and went to work in a career in finance. Colom won a number of awards for her writing and left work to write full time. Colom won the Miquel Martí i Pol prize in 2000 and the Maria Àngels Anglada prize in 2016.^[2] The Anglada prize was awarded for her collection of five short stories, La senyoreta Keaton i altres bêsties, described as "half children's story, half Gothic horror".^[2] Colom's works have been translated into a number of languages including Spanish, French, Mandarin and Italian.^[3][4] In 2015 Colom was the curator of the Barcelona Poetry Week.^[5] Since 2022 Colom is the director of Fundació Ramon Llull, an organisation to promote the Catalan language and culture.^[6]

In 2019, Colom published her first novel, Consciència, a science fiction work set in a future where consciousness can survive death through preservation in computer systems.^[3]

In 2020, Colom's poem Eix featured in the thirty "Poets Under Pressure" series commissioned by Catalan newspaper El Nacional.^[1] Her short story, The Gravedigger's Son, was published in English by The Guardian for their 'Translation Tuesdays' series, translated by Mara Faye Lethem.^[7] The story was described as "Tim Burton crossed with the Brothers Grimm".^[8][7]

Works

• Com mesos de juny, Edicions del Diari d'Andorra, 2001^[9]
• La temperatura d'uns llavis, Edicions del Diari d'Andorra, 2002
• Elegies del final conegut, Abadia Editors, 2005
• On tot és vidre, Pagès Editors, 2009
• La meva mare es preguntava per la mort, Pagès Editors, 2012^[4]
• La senyoreta Keaton i altres besties Empúries La Huerta Grande, 2015
• Consciència, Empúries, 2019^[3][10][11]