Selected Artist
DAMIÀ ROTGER MIRÓ
Damià Rotger Miró, Ferreries, Menorca, 1981. He has been living in Mallorca for almost twenty years. His life is wrapped up in letters and words. He is a typographer, teacher and poet. He is also the author of «El país dels rellotges», a short story for young people that won the first Francesc d’Albranca Prize, and of the poetry collections «Grams de tu» (Ed. Menorca, 2015. Second prize Illa de Menorca), «Lletrescades» (Ed. Campgràfic, 2016), «482 mm» (Ed. Bilibú, 2018), «Arèola» (Adia Edicions, 2019. Bernat Vidal i Tomàs Prize 2019), «Llibre d’esvalots» (Moll publishing house, 2021), «Umbilical» (Moll publishing house, 2023) and «Calls al gest» (Vincle publishing house, 2023 Teodor Llorente Prize). His poems have been published in the anthologies «Illanvers» (2016), «Mianorca» (2016), «Lletraferits» (2017), «Veus Paral·leles» (2017), «Versus» (2019), «Illanvers» (2021), «Beyond the Language» (Anglaterra, 2022), «En clars abismes se’m fa desig» (Eivissa, 2022), «Illanvers» (2021) and part of the book «Sgt. Pepper’s a través del espejo» (T&B Editores, 2017). Together with Marc Fuentes, he has published the punk-poetic fanzines «Nedar la fosca» (2016), «La carn i l’innombrable» (2017) and «Suor negra» (2018). His poems have been translated into Spanish, English, Italian and Polish.
His interest in spoken poetry has led him to recite in a multitude of events, presentations, festivals and festivals all over the country and to organize, for some years now, ‘Lluna de mala lengua’, poetry recitals where verses flood the night in Palma de Mallorca. He is a member for the Balearic Islands of the Associació d’Escriptors amb Llengua Catalana (AELC), editorial and graphic identity designer of the legendary Balenguera collection at Editorial Moll and, since 2023, typographic advisor to the prestigious publishing house Campgràfic.
As a typographer, he teaches typographic design, history of typography and editorial projects at EDIB, and is the author of more than a dozen new typeface families, both historical recreations and contemporary formulations. He has won numerous national and international awards and recognitions and his work has been exhibited and published all over the world; Mallorca, Barcelona, America, Madrid, France, China, Rio de Janeiro, Valencia, Germany, etc.
