Lourdes Corbera (Barcelona, 1968) is a writer, translator, and proofreader.

After studying at the Barcelona Athenaeum School of Writing, she left her career as a telecommunications engineer to devote herself full-time to the world of letters. Author of fictional works, both short stories and novels, she also works as a translator, proofreader, and as a linguistic, publishing, and literary consultant.

From 2016 to 2019 she completed a master’s degree in Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature at the University of Barcelona, with a thesis titled Anàlisi de la traducció al català de l’obra novel·lística d’Émile Zola. She also has a postgraduate degree in Catalan Proofreading and Linguistic Advisory Services from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (with a placement in the Linguistic Advisory Department of the Parliament of Catalonia), and is adjunct lecturer in French-Spanish Translation at the Pompeu Fabra University.

She has published the novels Et trucaré demà (2015), Cira (2017), El cas de la xinxeta (2020), and Expiatio (2023 – winner of the Sixteenth Ediciones Oblicuas Literary Award for Fiction), as well as several short stories in collections and periodical publications.

She is founder and editor of Súper Contes, a bespoke writing service offering original stories.

She is a member of the Associació d’Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (Association of Catalan Language Writers – AELC).

Web page: Toni Terrades for AELC.
Documentation: Lourdes Corbera.
Photograph: © Jordi Adell.
Translation: Julie Wark.