Laia Fàbregas

Laia Fàbregas (Barcelona, 1973) has a degree in Fine Arts from the Universitat de Barcelona and teaches creative writing at the Laboratori de Lletres, of which she is the director and where she created the Master's Degree in Literary Creation.

Between 1997 and 2010 she lived in the Netherlands. There she worked in a bank, in an industrial pump company, in an art festival and in an art gallery, before entering a consultancy that led her to work for 5 years in the Amsterdam police.

In 2003 she regained some stories that she had started to write in Catalan when she was nineteen years old, about a girl who only had nine fingers. She translated a few paragraphs into Dutch, and kept writing. After a few years of combining work with writing, in 2008 she published La nena dels nou dits (Girl with the Nine Fingers) by the Dutch publisher Ambo|Anthos. The book received high praise from Dutch critics and was translated into Catalan (Columna), Spanish (El Aleph) and 5 other languages. La llista (Landing) was published in 2010 (Amsterdam in Catalan and Alfaguara in Spanish) and in 2013 Dies de cel groc (Yellow Days, in Amsterdam) was out, and both were also translated into several languages. In January 2021, her fourth novel No escriuré la teva història (I Will Not Write Your Story, in Empúries) was released.

In 2011 he wrote the play VOLG for the company FirmaMES, from The Hague. She has also translated several plays from Dutch for the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya.

Her latest novel, El silenci dels astronautes (The Silence of the Astronauts), awarded the Joanot Martorell prize, will be published next November in Edicions 62 and is the story of a girl who isolates herself, of a mother who doesn’t know how to help her and of a boy who, for some time and a distant space, will be the key to everything.