Anna Gual’s poems express life in all its unexpectedness, whether she is exploring relationships between human beings and the rest of our universe, between and within bodies, or language itself. Scientific inquiry informs her work as she observes both the visible and the invisible. She is a leading figure in the Catalan literary world, a prolific prize-winning author of eight collections of poetry. Unnameable is Gual’s debut book in English translation and is bilingual in Catalan and English on facing pages.

Gual’s first book, Implosions (2008), now in its fourth edition, was published when she was twenty-two. Her blog, No caic, em tiro, won the 2012 Prize for the Best Blog Written in Catalan. She has received several prestigious awards for her poetry, including the Miquel de Palol Prize, the Bernat Vidal i Tomàs Prize, the Senyoriu Ausiàs March Prize, and the Pare Colom Prize for Mediterranean Poetry. Her collections have been translated into French, Italian, and Spanish. She has appeared at international festivals such as the 2024 Sant Jordi USA Festival, the 2024 European Poetry Festival in the UK, and the Days of Poetry and Wine Festival in Slovenia, and has given readings in Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Croatia, and beyond.