Albert Mestres

Writer, translator and stage director. He has published the dramatic texts La bufa (1998), Dramàtic i altres peces (2002), Vides de tants (2003), 1714. Homenatge a Sarajevo (2004), Temps real (2007), Odola (2007), Dos de dos (2008), Un altre Wittgenstein, si us plau, o L’holocaust and Zwdu o El dubte / Le doute / der Zweifel. Farsa (2009) and La partida o còctel de gambes (2010); the poetry books O res (1991), A sac (1999), Tres (2001), Llum (2007) and Comèdia (2008); the novels Ales de cera (1996), La ela de Milet (1998), La tercera persona (2001) and La pau perpètua (2006).

On stage he has premiered La petita bufa (1996), Dramàtic (2002), Vides de tants (2003), 1714. Homenatge a Sarajevo (2004), Contes estigis (2004),  Peça cua per a l’Informe per a una acadèmia de Franz Kafka (2005), Temps real(2007), Odola (2007), Dos de dos (2008), Un altre Wittgenstein, si us plau, o L’holocaust (2009) and Zwdu o El dubte / Le doute / der Zweifel (2010).

As a translator, he has translated the Marquis de Sade, Count Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, Marcial, T. Landolfi, C. Nodier, G. Steiner, F. Pessoa, A. Baricco, J. Worms, D. Edwards, J. P. Sartre, J. M. Synge, Th. De Quincey, J. Racine and J. Ford. He was resident playwright at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya from 2006 to 2009 within the T6 Project.

From this playwright, Sala Beckett has shown Vides de tants (2003), Zwdu  o El Dubte / Le doute / Der Zweifel (2010) and Un altre Wittgenstein, si us plau, o L’Holocaust (2010). Translations of his plays into other languages are available at www.catalandrama.cat.