Autumn 2025

2025 Joanot Martorell Lecture: Translation or transcreation? Authors in English, Catalan translators and publishers

Save the date! 🗓️
November 18th, 6.30 pm
ArtsOne 1.36, Queen Mary University of London

Join us for the Joanot Martorell Lecture, presented in collaboration with Instituto Cervantes London. 🎓✨
This year, Emeritus Professor Jacqueline Hurtley will explore “Translation or transcreation? English-language authors, Catalan translators and publishers, 1920–1938.”

🎟️ Free admission, but booking is required via Eventbrite:

Followed by a reception.

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A fascinating evening of literature, language, and cultural exchange awaits — don’t miss it! 🌍💬
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QM Catalan Book Club: Dead Lands / Terres mortes

Tuesday 16 September, 6.30pm (UK time)

Register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queen-mary-catalan-book-club-dead-lands-terres-mortes-tickets-1473110215309

Join us online for a new session of the Queen Mary Catalan Book Club. On this occasion we will be discussing Dead Lands / Terres mortes, with Catalan author Núria Bendicho and translator Maruxa Relaño. Read the Catalan original or the English translation and join the discussion!

The publishers 3TimesRebel have kindly sent the Queen Mary Catalan Book Club some copies. So, we are giving away copies of the English translation to the first five people who sign up for the session on Eventbrite!

A violent death unleashes the story of a cursed lineage. Jon was shot in the back, in an isolated house where the only other occupants were his family. Who pulled the trigger?

Thirteen characters. Thirteen different points of view.

Dead Lands is a kaleidoscopic narrative that unfurls an atavistic universe where characters are burdened by brutal origins, two deaths, and a dark secret.

In short, it’ll change your summer reading plans and reveal a world you could not imagine.