Iolanda Batallé, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Iolanda Batallé

Catalan writer, journalist, publisher and teacher

Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1971

Place of Birth: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Profession: writer, university teacher, journalist, publisher

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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Iolanda Batallé (born 1971, Barcelona) is a Catalan writer and editor.
Since September, 2018 is the Director of Institut Ramon Llull.Born in Barcelona in 1971, Batallé is a Graduate in English Philology (University of Barcelona and University of Southampton) and has a Master's in Business Administration from the ESADE Business School and the University of Berkeley.Since 1990, she has collaborated with several media bodies such as El Observador, Diari de Girona, COM Ràdio and RAC 1.
She was Editor and Head of Press at Random House Mondadori (until 2009).Since 2009, she has been Editorial Director of the La Galera and Bridge imprints of the Enciclopèdia Catalana Group.
Since 2016, Batallé has also been Editor and Founder of: Rata and Catedral, of the same publishing group.She is also a Professor of the Master in Publishing at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (since 2008) and of the Master of Literary Creation at the same university (since 2016).
She has previously been a Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature in California.
As a writer, she has published the novel La memòria de les formigues (The Memory of Ants) in 2009, and, in 2011, El límit exacte dels nostres cossos (The Precise Limit of Our Bodies), a collection of stories.
In 2013, her novel Faré tot el que tu vulguis (I Will Do Whatever You Want) won the Prudenci Bertrana prize.