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Longlisted for the 2026 National Translation Award, Unnameable is Anna Gual's debut book in English translation. Her 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. The judges for the National Translation Award wrote: "Constantly surprising and capturing the world anew in all its strangeness, these are at once profoundly visual poems, but also delicious soundscapes of meaning." Unnameable is bilingual in Catalan and English on facing pages.
Anna Gual is a prolific prize-winning poet and author of eight collections of poetry, a mainstay in the Catalan literary world, with collections also translated into French, Italian and Spanish. Her first book, Implosions (2008), now in its fourth edition, came out when she was twenty-two. Her blog, No caic, em tiro, won the 2012 Prize for the Best Blog Written in Catalan. She has won several prestigious awards for her poetry collections, including the 2022 Miquel de Palol Prize, the Bernat Vidal I Tomàs Prize and the Senyoriu Ausiàs March Prize in 2016, and the 2013 Pare Colom Prize for Mediterranean Poetry. She has been a featured poet at the 2024 Sant Jordi USA festival, the 2024 European Poetry Festival in the UK, the 2022 Days of Poetry and Wine Festival in Slovenia, and at readings in Bologna, Turin, Venice, Nice, and elsewhere.