Max Besora (Barcelona, 1980) graduated in Literary Studies from the Universitat de Barcelona. He holds two MAs, one in the Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature and the other in Training for Teachers of Compulsory Secondary Education, Advanced Education, Vocational and Professional Training and Languages. He is currently completing his PhD thesis on academic fictions.

As a poet, he has given readings at the Sala de Ensayos in the Teatro Liceo in Salamanca alongside the poet Eduard Escoffet (2006), the Festival de Poesia de Barcelona (2010), the Festival Ingràvid in L’Empordà (2010), in the Parco Nazionale dell’Alsinara on Sardinia with the poet Ricard Ripoll and the poets Ester Xargai and Carles Hac Mor (2011) and at the Festival Poesia i + in Caldes d’Estrac with the writer and journalist David Castillo (2014). His publications include the poetry collection L’espectre electromagnètic, for which he was awarded the XLIV Recull - Benet Ribas Prize for Poetry (Pagès Editors, 2008), and the novels Vulcano (LaBreu Edicions, 2011), La tècnica meravellosa: una novel·la de campus (Males Herbes, 2014) and Aventures i desventures de l'insòlit i admirable Joan Orpí, conquistador i fundador de la Nova Catalunya (Males Herbes, 2017), for which he was awarded the 2017 City of Barcelona Prize for Literature in the Catalan Language.

He has lectured at the UNC Asheville (USA), the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (Romania), the University of Gdańsk (Poland) and the Kyiv National Linguistic University (Ukraine). He teaches languages for foreigners in language schools and writing at the Escola Bloom.

Biography made in 2018