Overview
In Wilder Winds, Bel Olid presents a stunning collection of short stories that draw on notions of individual freedom, abuses of power, ingrained social violence, life on the outskirts of society, and inevitable differences. Alongside these are small acts of kindness capable of changing the world and making it a better place. Like flowers stubbornly growing and blooming in the cracks of a pavement, Olid’s work seeks out beauty without renouncing truth, and never avoids conflict or intimacy. Wilder Winds creates scenes and fragile, yet hardy characters that will stay with the reader for years to come.
Full Product Details
Author: Bel Olid ,
Laura McGloughlin
Publisher: FUM D'ESTAMPA PRESS
Imprint: FUM D'ESTAMPA PRESS
Edition: LONDON
Dimensions:
Width: 13.00cm
, Height: 0.50cm
, Length: 19.50cm
Weight: 0.106kg
ISBN: 9781913744038
ISBN 10: 1913744035
Pages: 84
Publication Date: 14 January 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""Bel Olid tells you the most terrible things in the most beautiful way.""--Marta Rojals, author of L'altra ""Charming and comforting on the one hand; like a vast abyss of violence and danger, it is stimulating and disturbing on the other.""--Júlia Sentís, Núvol ""Simple, everyday descriptions transport the reader to places and moments, producing sensations that we can all relate to . . . an excellent read.""--Nosaltresllegim.cat"
"""Bel Olid tells you the most terrible things in the most beautiful way.""--Marta Rojals, author of L'altra ""Charming and comforting on the one hand; like a vast abyss of violence and danger, it is stimulating and disturbing on the other.""--J�lia Sent�s, N�vol ""Simple, everyday descriptions transport the reader to places and moments, producing sensations that we can all relate to . . . an excellent read.""--Nosaltresllegim.cat"
Bel Olid tells you the most terrible things in the most beautiful way.--Marta Rojals, author of L'altra Charming and comforting on the one hand; like a vast abyss of violence and danger, it is stimulating and disturbing on the other.--Julia Sentis, Nuvol Simple, everyday descriptions transport the reader to places and moments, producing sensations that we can all relate to . . . an excellent read.--Nosaltresllegim.cat
""Bel Olid tells you the most terrible things in the most beautiful way.""--Marta Rojals, author of L'altra ""Charming and comforting on the one hand; like a vast abyss of violence and danger, it is stimulating and disturbing on the other.""--Júlia Sentís, Núvol ""Simple, everyday descriptions transport the reader to places and moments, producing sensations that we can all relate to . . . an excellent read.""--Nosaltresllegim.cat
Author Information
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 Associació 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 Llüisa Cunillé, Maria Barbal, Flavia Company, Toni Hill Gumbao, and Joan Brossa.
