Ana Vidal Egea

Ana Vidal Egea (Spain, 1984) is a writer and journalist. She holds a doctorate of Comparative Literature (UNED) and a Masters Degree in Journalism (UCM-Helsinki University). She lives in New York City since 2013 and collaborates with El País Semanal, the magazine of the most distributed newspaper in Spain, where she writes a monthly article about culture.

On January 2022 she published in Spanish an essay: "Keeping company with someone who is dying. A guide to death doulas and caregivers".

She published three books of poetry: "Todo este espacio" (PUZ, 2019), and two bilingual ones, "Dolores-Manhattan" (La Fea Burguesía, 2016) and "Notebook of Asia" (Amargord, 2016), that were both presented at McNally Jackson Bookstore in Soho, in 2017. She also published two novels; “Arctic Nights” (Baile del Sol, 2010), "The dark mouth of the world" (Alejandría Literary Award) and a short story collection “The other life: 18 stories of love and fear” (Traspiés, 2009).

She was included in "Sombras di-versas" (Vaso Roto, 2018), an anthology curated by Amalia Iglesias. that collects the work of the 17 most representative female poets of Spain from 1970-1991.

Her poem "Us" was promoted by the Spanish Public Television, RTVE, and the Spanish Public Radio, RNE.

Her first feature documentary "Get married at the airport (Love and alcohol on the run)" was premiered as part of the competition of the New York City Independent Film Festival in its 2017 Edition. With it, she won the "Best Woman Filmmaker" award at the Barcelona Planet Festival and the Jury Award, Best Documentary Award and Best experimental movie award at the L.A Underground Film Forum 2017.

Vidal was Finalist of the Adonais Poetry Award, Booket Young Talents by Planeta Publishing House, and winner of “La voz+ Joven” of Obra Social Caja Madrid, “New voices” by Torremozas, and Fungible among others. She won the first prize in the Internacional Festival of short movies “To be or not to be” with her movie "Inhabited Landscape".

In March 2018 she successfully premiered in New York "Two women", a play that she writes and directs.

She got invited to the Miami Book Fair in 2017, to the Literature Forum Austria- Latin America, representing Spain in 2018, to the Kerouac International Festival of Poetry in Mexico D.F, to the Americas Poetry Festival (2019) and the FILNYC (2019).