Prize, the European Union Prize for Literature, and the Amadeu Oller Poetry Prize. Her artwork has been exhibited in the Whitechapel Gallery.
Her newest novel is When I Sing, Mountains Dance.
At the Guardian Solà tagged ten wilderness stories that transcend "the passive landscape or the backdrop of compelling beauty and instead appreciates it as an active entity," including:
The Vorrh by Brian CatlingRead about the other entries on the list at the Guardian.
The vorrh, in Catling’s The Vorrh trilogy, is a very ancient forest, so old that it’s thought of as being home to the garden of Eden, where Adam and Eve roam along with cyclops and anthropophagi (cannibal rogues that attract humans deep into the forest with pails of water and food). This forest is in itself an entity that has sentience and perhaps even a will, and it rejects the presence of humans by driving them insane.
--Marshal Zeringue
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