Teresa Colom i Pich

Teresa Colom i Pich (born 12 December 1973) is an Andorran author and poet. She won the Miquel Martí i Pol prize in 2000 and the Maria Àngels Anglada prize in 2016. She has published several collections of poetry, a collection of short stories, and a novel. Colom is the director of the Fundació Ramon Llull.

Biography Maria Teresa Colom i Pich was born in La Seu d'Urgell in 1973. She initially studied economics, graduating from Pompeu Fabra University, and went to work in a career in finance. Colom won a number of awards for her writing and left work to write full time. Colom won the Miquel Martí i Pol prize in 2000 and the Maria Àngels Anglada prize in 2016. The Anglada prize was awarded for her collection of five short stories, La senyoreta Keaton i altres bêsties, described as "half children's story, half Gothic horror". In 2015 Colom was the curator of the Barcelona Poetry Week. Since 2022 Colom is the director of Fundació Ramon Llull, an organisation to promote the Catalan language and culture.

In 2019, Colom published her first novel, Consciència, a science fiction work set in a future where consciousness can survive death through preservation in computer systems. The story was described as "Tim Burton crossed with the Brothers Grimm". La temperatura d'uns llavis, Edicions del Diari d'Andorra, 2002 Elegies del final conegut, Abadia Editors, 2005 On tot és vidre, Pagès Editors, 2009 La meva mare es preguntava per la mort, Pagès Editors, 2012