Laia Martínez i López


Laia Martínez i López, also known as Laia MaLo, is a Catalan writer and musician.

Life

Malo was born in Berga, Spain in 1984.
In 2007, she graduated from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Translation and Interpreting.

Career

Since 2012 she is part of the electronic duo Jansky, which has published, with the record label Primeros Pasitos, the albums Un big bang a la gibrella and ÈÉ in 2013 and 2015, respectively. Their latest LP, This is electroverse was published in 2018 with Hidden Track Records.
Since 2014 she has been vocal for Mallorca of the Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana.
In 2015 she finished her third work Cançó amb esgarrip i dos poemes. Her collection Afollada, published in 2016, addresses the issue of motherhood and presents itself as a song to freedom. Her latest collection is Venus volta.

Awards

In 2011 she won the Art Jove poetry prize of 2010 for her book L'estiu del tonight, tonight. and which has been translated into Spanish.
In 2018 Jansky won the SUNS Award to Best European Band in a Minorized Language.

Translations

Malo has been in charge of the first Catalan translation of Patti Smith. The collection of poems Auguris d'innocència was published in 2019 by Labreu Edicions.