Eugènia Broggi: "I spent the day reading and dreaming of other lives and other worlds"

Bea Cabezas — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:02:18 +0000

Eugènia Broggi (Barcelona 1974) founded L’Altra Editorial in 2014 and in just over ten years it has become a benchmark for Catalan literature.

Grew up in the center of Eixample, in Barcelona. “There have always been a lot of tourists, a lot of people coming and going. And I do remember shops, a shoe store, a farm... but soon everything ended up being absorbed by gentrification and there was really little neighborhood life”.

Goodbye to Maria Carme Dalmau, the editor who overcame a thousand and one obstacles to promote Catalan culture

Sílvia Marimon — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:36:28 +0000

Without the persistence of the editor Maria Carme Dalmau, we would surely be missing many reference works on the history and heritage of Catalonia today. She worked a great deal, even during the greyness and repression of Francoism, to publicize and make accessible to the public books that explained the country's past, geography, and traditions. And she did so by overcoming very significant legal and economic obstacles. She circumvented censorship by devising a thousand and one stratagems. Born in Barcelona in 1930, the editor died this Thursday at the age of 96.

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Eugènia Broggi: "I spent the day reading and dreaming of other lives and other worlds"

Eugènia Broggi (Barcelona 1974) founded L’Altra Editorial in 2014 and in just over ten years it has become a benchmark for Catalan literature.

Grew up in the center of Eixample, in Barcelona. “There have always been a lot of tourists, a lot of people coming and going. And I do remember shops, a shoe store, a farm... but soon everything ended up being absorbed by gentrification and there was really little neighborhood life”.

Goodbye to Maria Carme Dalmau, the editor who overcame a thousand and one obstacles to promote Catalan culture