Bel Olid is a writer and translator and has published a number of books, both in original Catalan and in translation from English, Italian, German and French. Bel Olid has won numerous prizes and awards including the Premi QWERTY, Premi Documenta and Premi Roc Boronat. From 2015 they have been president of the Associacio d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana and, from 2013 to 2015, president of the European Council of Literary Translators' Associations. They currently live in Badalona.

Laura McGloughlin has been a freelance translator from Catalan and Spanish since completing a master's degree in literary translation at the University of East Anglia. She was awarded the inaugural British Centre for Literary Translation Catalan-English Translation Mentorship in 2011. Among other works she has translated work by Lluisa Cunille, Maria Barbal, Flavia Company, Toni Hill Gumbao, and Joan Brossa.

Books by Bel Olid