Jordi Nopca

Jordi Nopca (born 1983, in Barcelona) is a Spanish journalist, writer and translator. He is a current editor of Ara newspaper and the editor-in-chief of Ara Llegim.

Biography Jordi Nopca studied Journalism and Literary theory and Comparative literature. Since 2006 he has published more than two thousand articles mainly for Ara newspaper, but also magazines such as Mondosonoro, Benzina, Sortim, Què fem?, Go Mag and Time Out Barcelona.

In 2012 he published his first novel, entitled El talent, with the publishing house Labreu Edicions. It narrates the experiences of a young couple who travels to Lisbon with a stolen prototype that can detect litarari talent. Thanks to this invention they are able to discover the hidden talent of several people, publish their work and earn a living. According to the author, the novel "should be placed before the crisis, that has led to a gradual dismantling of illusions, so this novel is pre-illusions lost".

Published work El futur és una petita flama, novel (Proa, 2025) La teva ombra, novel (Proa, 2019) / En la sombra (Destino, 2020) Puja a casa, short-story collection (L'Altra, 2015) / Vente a casa (Libros del Asteroide, 2015) / Come on up (Bellevue Literary Press, 2021) El talent, novel (Labreu Edicions, 2012)

Translations William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., They Came Like Swallows as Van venir com orenetes (Libros del Asteroide, 2007) Jetta Carleton, The Moonflower Vine as Quatre germanes (Libros del Asteroide, 2009) David Monteagudo, Fin as Fi (Quaderns Crema, 2010) David Monteagudo, Marcos Montes (Quaderns Crema, 2010) Szilárd Borbély, foreword in the novel The dispossessed (Els desposseïts, Edicions del Periscopi, 2015) Les Murray, Killing the black dog as Matar el gos negre (Días Contados, 2017) Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, foreword in Notes from Underground (Apunts del subsòl, Angle Editorial, 2021) Gunnhild Oyehaug, foreword in Knots (Nusos, Nits Blanques/Las afueras, 2021) Cynthia Ozick, foreword in Antiquities (Antiguitats, Labreu edicions, 2022) Tsitsi Dangarembga, foreword in The Book of Not (El llibre del no, L'Agulla Daurada, 2024) Hans Christian Andersen, foreword in Collected stories (Tots els contes, Adesiara, 2025) Sayaka Murata, foreword in Life ceremony (La cerimònia, Empúries, 2025) Ryu Murakami, foreword in Piercing (Pírcing, Gata Maula, 2026) James Baldwin, foreword in Going to Meet the Man (Hora de conèixer l'home, Trotalibros, 2026)