Joan Graell i Piqué (Cambrils, el Solsonès, 1971) is a poet and fiction writer.

After making his debut in 1997 with Un llapis com el vent, he had since published six collections of poems and a plaquette, works for which he has received awards including second prize in the First Joan Duch Awards for Young Poets, the Guillem Viladot Prize, the Benet Ribas Recvll Prize for Poetry, and the Carles Hac Mor Prize for Plaquettes of Subversive Writing. In 2019, his work was included in the anthology Poetes de Ponent. Antologia (De la Renaixença als nostres dies).

He also writes short stories, narrative, and micro-stories in jointly authored publications, and in the digital media. For these works he has received the Vila de Puigcerdà, Guillem de Belibasta, Drac de prosa, Vent de Port, and Microrelats de la Vall Fosca prizes.

He was a member of the editorial team of the cultural resistance magazine Lo Banyut, which was published annually in the Alt Urgell region between 1997 and 2016, as well as publishing occasional articles in the Pyrenean information and current affairs magazine Viure als Pirineus.

He is presently curator of the poetry collection “Crisàlide”, which was launched by the publisher Edicions Salòria in 2025.

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

Web page: Sara Serrano Valenzuela for AELC.
Documentation and photographs: Author’s personal files.
Translation: Julie Wark.