Poets

Xavier Mas Craviotto (Navàs, Catalonia, 1996) studied Catalan Philology and completed a postgraduate degree in Linguistic Consultancy and Publishing Services at the University of Barcelona. For four years, he was a lecturer in Catalan language and culture at
the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom. He has also been a board member of the Association of Catalan Language Writers (AELC). He is one of the co-founders of ’Com hodiria’, a digital platform specialising in Catalan youth slang. He was the youngest writer ever to win the Documenta Narrative Prize in 2018 for his novel La mort lenta (The Slow Death, 2019), and later published his second novel, La pell del món (The Skin of the World, 2023). He is also the author of three poetry collections: Renills de cavall negre ‘Black Horse Neighs, 2019, with which he became the inaugural winner of the Salvador Iborra Youth Art Poetry Prize in 2018; La gran nàusea (The Great Nausea, 2021), and La llum subterrània (The Underground Light, 2023), which earned him the Ausiàs March Prize, one of the most prestigious awards for Catalan poetry.