TòNIA PASSOLA

Tònia Passola is a Catalan-language poet born in the heart of Barcelona. She holds a degree in Art History and has worked as a high school teacher of Catalan language and literature. Tònia Passola’s serene and profound poetry is not based on the fashionable aesthetic trends of the period, but on a new form of discovery that opens the door to an unconventional beauty, one closer to life itself and appealing to the deepest human feelings. In her books Cel rebel, La sensualitat del silenci, Bressol, L’horitzó que no hi és, Nua and Beuratge, despite the limits of words, reality and dream gain a voice and speak on her behalf. Her bilingual editions include Catalan-French: “Margelle d’étoiles” (2013) and “Le souffle des lettres” (2022), as well as Catalan-Spanish: “Salto al espejo” (2021) and “Sangre imaginada” (2024). She has participated in international festivals; her poems have appeared in anthologies and magazines in Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian, English, German, Dutch, Greek, Serbian, Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish, Arabic, Persian, and Chinese. In 2014, she was awarded the “Nënë Tereze” (Mother Teresa) prize in Gjakova, Republic of Kosovo. In 2015, she received the “Alexander the Great” award on the island of Salamis, Greece; in 2017, she was honored with the Literary Award for “Special poetic creativity” at the “Ditët e Naimit” International Poetry Festival in Tetovo, Macedonia; and in 2018, several of her poems were awarded in a Chinese publication.