Anna Punsoda i Ricart (born in 1985) is a Catalan journalist, novelist, essayist, translator and politician.
She is the author of several books and is the translator of seven German-language works published in Catalan.
In 2024, she was a founding member of the new pro-independence political party Alhora, and was presented as a candidate for the party at the elections of the same year.
Punsoda was born in Els Plans de Sió, on the plain of Segarra in central Catalonia, before moving to Lleida where she grew up. She received a degree in Journalism from Ramon Llull University and Philosophy from the University of Barcelona (UB). As part of a Master's degree in Contemporary Thought and Classical Tradition at UB, she produced a thesis on the social and political thought of Joan Maragall, eventually resulting in a published anthology of Maragall's texts. She later moved to Germany, living in the cities of Dresden, Leibzig and Hamburg, where she worked as a translator.
Her journalistic work has focused on cultural topics, and she has contributed to a range of media outlets including newspapers El PaÃÂs, Ara, Nació Digital, El Núvol, La Mira and El Temps, as well as appearing on radio stations Catalunya Ràdio and RAC1. In 2017 she was involved in the creation of La Llança, the cultural supplement of El Nacional, and she has been the editor of Diagonal magazine since 2020.
Her 2018 debut novel, Els llits dels altres, won the Roc Boronat prize for that year. The novel was translated into English by Mara Faye Lethem and published in 2022. La luxúria (2020) was an extended essay on lust, while La terra dura (2023) explored her relationship to the rural Catalan environment of her youth.
In 2024, Punsoda became a founding member of big-tent, pro-independence Catalan political party Alhora, and was placed second-in-command on the 14-member national council charged with directing the party's activities.
Punsoda was put forward as the 3rd placed candidate on the party's list for the 2024 Catalan elections, after Clara PonsatÃÂ and Jordi Graupera, although she was not elected as the party failed to gain a single seat.