Albert Villaró i Boix (la Seu d’Urgell, 1964), a graduate in History and writer, is the author of several historical studies, outstanding amongst which is the critical edition (2018) of Manual Digest de les Valls Neutres d’Andorra by Anton Fiter i Rossell (1748). He also wrote the libretto for the opera El somni de Carlemany (2008), with music by Sergio Rendine, is a regular contributor to the daily Diari d’Andorra, and has published the short story collection La selva mora (1993, winner of the 1994 Anna Dodas Memorial Prize) as well as a collection of his articles titled Els quatre pilans (1998). Moreover, as a novelist he has published Les ànimes sordes (2000), L’any dels francs (2003, winner of the Nèstor Luján Prize), Obaga (2003), Blau de Prússia (2006, winner of the Carlemany Prize), La primera pràctica (2010), L’escala del dolor (2012), Els ambaixadors (2014, winner of the Josep Pla Prize), La Bíblia Andorrana (2015, winner of the Prudenci Bertrana Prize), El Sindicat de l’Oblit (2018), La Companyia Nòrdica (2020), and Tercer origen (2024). His recent work, Cadí [una biografia] (2025), is an incursion into the genre of the memoir essay.

His books have been translated into Spanish, French, Greek, Italian, and Czech.

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

Web page: Toni Terrades for AELC.
Photograph: Author’s personal files.
Translated by Julie Wark.