Maria Callís (Catalonia)
Maria Callís is a Catalan poet born in Girona in 1983. She teaches Catalan linguistics at the University of Barcelona and works as a proofreader for many publishing houses.
As a poet, she has published three books: Jonàs (Jonah), which in 2004 received the Amadeu Oller Prize for young unpublished authors; La matinada clara (Bright Morning, 2010), and in 2017, La ciutat cansada (Tired City), for which she won the Carles Riba Prize, considered the most prestigious Catalan poetry award.