Translation Rights TQE / Valentina in Barcelona

While visiting Barcelona on a class trip, Valentina and Tomás wait at the Sagrada Familia for the guide hired by Miss Jacinta to accompany them on the elevator ride to the top of the building’s towers. Tomás still feels a bit weak from a recent case of the measles. As it turns out, the guide will not only show them the Sagrada Familia, but he will also bring them to las Ramblas, to the Miró Foundation, and to the Tibidabo. He will show them magical buildings by Gaudí, such as the Pedrera and the Casa Batlló, and will bring them to the Park Güell, from where they will finally be able to see the tower that competes with the ones at the Sagrada Familia.

Anatxu Zabalbeascoa was born in Barcelona in 1966. She studied Journalism at Barcelona’s Autónoma University and Art History at the The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has written several volumes about art and architecture, as well as a novel and a book of short stories. She has been the curator of exhibitions such as Máscara y Espejo (Mask and Mirror - MACBA, 1997), and Minimalismos. Un signo de los tiempos (Minimalism: A Sign of the Times – Reina Sofía Museum, 2001). She has been a member of the jury for the Ciudad de Barcelona Prize, the Salon of Interior Design, and the Spanish National Prize for Photography. She writes in El País Semanal (EPS) as well as in the newspaper’s cultural supplement, Babelia, about architecture, design, and art.