Laia Martínez i López
{{Short description|Catalan writer and musician}}
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| birth_place = Berga, Catalonia
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| nationality = Catalonia
| other_names = Laia MaLo
| occupation = writer, musician, translator
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Laia Martínez i López (born 1984), also known as Laia MaLo, is a Catalan writer and musician.
Life
Malo was born in Berga, Catalonia, Spain on the 21 April 1984.{{Cite web|url=http://lletra.uoc.edu/uploads/20140316/Laia_Martinez.pdf|title=Día de la poesia catalana a internet #jollegeixo|last=|first=|date=|website=Universitat Oberta de Catalunya|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2017-03-25}}
In 2007, she graduated from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Translation and Interpreting.
Career
Since 2012 she is part of the electronic duo Jansky with Jaume Reus, which has published, with the record label Primeros Pasitos, the albums Un big bang a la gibrella and ÈÉ in 2013 and 2015, respectively.{{Cite web|url=http://primerospasitos.com/anda/jansky|title=jansky – Primeros Pasitos|website=primerospasitos.com|access-date=2017-03-22}} Their latest LP, This is electroverse was published in 2018 with Hidden Track Records.{{Cite web|url=http://www.hiddentrackrecords.com/artists/jansky|title=Jansky }}
Since 2014 she has been vocal for Mallorca of the Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (AELC).{{Cite news|url=http://www.nuvol.com/entrevistes/laia-martinez-i-lopez-necessito-que-lart-mexciti/|title=Laia Martinez i Lopez: "Necessito que l'art m'exciti"|work=Núvol|access-date=2017-03-25|language=ca}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.escriptors.cat/?q=node/11209|title=Associaciò d'escriptors en llengua catalana|last=|first=|date=|website=www.escriptors.cat|language=ca|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2017-03-22}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.ara.cat/societat/LAIAMARTINEZ-poetes-societat-oferim-diferent_0_1381661878.html|title=Laia Martínez: "Els poetes no vivim al marge de la societat, però li oferim una mirada diferent"|work=Ara.cat|access-date=2017-03-22|language=ca}}
In 2015 she finished her third work Cançó amb esgarrip i dos poemes.{{Cite news|url=https://www.40putes.com/20150901/laia-martinez-i-lopez-canco-amb-esgarrip-i-dos-poemes-lleonard-muntaner-2015/|title=Laia Martínez i López, "Cançó amb esgarrip i dos poemes" (Lleonard Muntaner, 2015) – 40Putes|date=1 September 2015|work=40Putes|access-date=2017-03-22|language=ca-ES}} Her collection Afollada, published in 2016, addresses the issue of motherhood and presents itself as a song to freedom.{{Cite news|url=http://www.llegirencasdincendi.cat/2016/05/afollada-canco-amb-esgarrip-i-dos-poemes-laia-martinez-i-lopez/|title=Parir o engolir: la poesia de Laia Martinez i Lopez|work=Llegir en cas d'incendi|access-date=2017-03-25|language=ca}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.diariodemallorca.es/cultura/2016/04/15/laia-martinez-i-lopez-publica/1109503.html|title=Laia Martinez i Lopez publica 'Afollada', "un canto a la libertad"|last=Mallorca|first=Diario de|access-date=2017-03-22}} Her latest collection is Venus volta (Lleonard Muntaner, 2018).
Awards
In 2011 she won the Art Jove poetry prize of 2010 for her book L'estiu del tonight, tonight.{{Cite news|url=http://ultimahora.es/noticias/cultura/2011/04/08/37216/laia-martinez-i-lopez-gana-el-art-jove-con-un-poemario-sobre-el-amor-y-el-paisaje.html|title=Laia Martínez i López gana el Art Jove con un poemario sobre "el amor y el paisaje"|date=8 April 2011|work=Ultima Hora|access-date=2017-03-22|language=es}} and which has been translated into Spanish.
In 2018 Jansky won the SUNS Award to Best European Band in a Minorized Language (Udine, Italy).
Translations
Malo signed the first Catalan translation of Patti Smith. The collection of poems Auguris d'innocència (Auguries of innocence) was published in 2019 by Labreu Edicions.
She also translated Djuna Barnes’ novel Nightwood for the same publisher, in 2021.
References
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Category:21st-century Spanish poets
Category:21st-century Spanish women writers