Bel Olid

• belolid.wordpress.com
• @BelOlid

Bel Olid is a writer, translator and feminist activist. She is a lecturer for the Department of Catalan Studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a regular columnist for Nació Digital and the El Temps magazine. She is the current president of the Association of Catalan Language Writers (Associació d’Escriptors en Llengua Catalana -AELC). Her published works include books for both children and young adults, short stories and theoretical reflections such as The Heroines Fight Back (Les heroïnes contraataquen, 2011), an analytical essay on gender roles in children’s literature for which she was awarded the Premi Rovelló for Best Children and Youth Essay. She is the author of Pocket Feminism: Survival Kit (Feminisme de butxaca: kit de supervivència, 2017), Interrupted Lives (Vides aturades, 2017) and the recently published Shall We Fuck? – What we (Don’t) Say When we Talk About Sexuality (Follem? – De què (no) parlem quan parlem de sexualitats, 2019)