Napalm in the Heart was presented in Dublin by Catalan writer Pol Guasch
The Instituto Cervantes in Dublin hosted the event featuring Guasch, widely regarded as one of the most promising voices in contemporary Catalan literature.
Guasch discussed his award-winning novel “Napalm en el corazón”, which he wrote at 24 years old, translated into English as “Napalm in the Heart” (Faber, 2024).
Accompanied by Brazilian-Irish poet Rafael Mendes, the conversation explored themes such as identity, memory, exile, and the richness of languages, all present in Guasch’s Pol’s novel.
Pol’s work is ‘one of the best books of the year’ according to The New Yorker, which highlights that it is about a “gay love story amid occupation, exile, and multilingualism”. The book’s film rights have also been sold for an adaptation.
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Pol Guasch (Tarragona, 1997) is the author of Napalm in the Heart (Llibres Anagrama Novel Prize 2021), which has been translated into a dozen languages. His latest novel is En las manos, el paraíso quema (Anagrama, 2024).
Guasch has written the poetry books Tanta gana (Francesc Garriga Prize 2018) and La parte del fuego (López-Picó Prize 2021).
In 2022 he received the Talent on Board Award from the Eñe Festival in Madrid and the 42 Revelation Prize in Catalan.
The English translation of Napalm in the Heart has been named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker.
Rafael Mendes is a Brazilian-Irish migrant whose work has recently appeared or is upcoming in Poetry Ireland Review, Propel Magazine, and Poetry Salzburg Review.
He is a 2023 Poetry Ireland Introductee and was awarded the 2023 Irish Writers Centre/Tyrone Guthrie Centre Lacuna Bursary.
He is a PhD candidate in Latin American Studies at Trinity College Dublin and a creative writing workshop facilitator.
The Instituto Cervantes is a public institution founded in 1991. Since 1995 organises in Dublin a wide variety of cultural events related to literature, film, music, theatre, visual arts and more.
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