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Marta Bausells

Marta Bausells is a freelance writer and editor

June 2022

  • Marli Siu in a blue polo top with her hands on her head lifting her hair

    ‘I spent six years working to get to this place’: Everything I Know About Love actor Marli Siu

    As a struggling actor, she used to commute from Scotland to London by bus to attend auditions. Now Marli Siu is on the verge of stardom in the BBC’s Everything I Know About Love

November 2019

  • Marieke Rijneveld

    Ten of the best new books in translation

    From a Dutch family saga to a murdered witch in Mexico, these novels will transport you from the North Korean border to Tblisi and beyond

May 2019

  • 2019 Man Booker International Prize - Winner Photocall<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 21: Jokha Alharthi, Author, attends the winner photocall for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize at The Roundhouse on May 21, 2019 in London, England. Jokha Alharthi’s book Celestial Bodies won the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. (Photo by Peter Summers/Getty Images)

    Further reading
    Broadening horizons: the best new fiction in translation

    From a Japanese masterpiece to a gothic horror set in Baghdad … which novels to read following the Man Booker International prize

June 2018

  • Elaine Castillo

    The first book interview
    Elaine Castillo: 'Have trauma? Join the club'

    The Filipino American author’s debut novel draws together a complex, intergenerational story where no character’s pain takes precedence

May 2018

  • Author Alicia Kopf

    The first book interview
    Alicia Kopf: 'I wanted to turn old-fashioned, masculine epics upside down'

  • Preparations for Royal Wedding of Harry and Meghan<br>WINDSOR, ENGLAND - MAY 10: Union Jack bunting hangs in front of Window Castle ahead of the wedding of Prince Harry and his fiance US actress Meghan Markle on May 10, 2018 in Windsor, England. St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle will host the wedding of Britain's Prince Harry and US actress Meghan Markle on May 19. The town, which gives its name to the Royal Family, is ready for the event and the expected tens of thousands of royalists. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

    Cities in the spotlight
    Windsor in the spotlight: where royal wedding frenzy sits alongside poverty

April 2018

  • Sharlene Teo

    The first book interview
    Sharlene Teo on her first book Ponti, writing 'losers' and dealing with hype

    Already praised by Ian McEwan, Teo’s debut about three Singaporean women – a cult horror movie actor, her anxious daughter and her more worldly friend – deftly captures the rivalry and jealousy of girlhood

January 2018

  • Bikeygees, is an organisation teaching refugee women and girls in Berlin how to cycle since 2015. Annette Krüger one of the co-founder, in the middle, Rahima on the right (both quoted in the piece).

    Bike blog
    'The feeling of freedom': empowering Berlin's refugee women through cycling

  • Novelist Emma Glass whose first novel "Peach" is about to be published by Bloomsbury.

    The first book interview
    Emma Glass: ‘I hope my book will help people find the language of the ordeal’

October 2017

  • Tom Hanks stars in Columbia Pictures suspense thriller "Angels & Demons." film still

    Books blog
    Robert Langdon in Catalonia: Dan Brown’s Origin picks bad day to launch

    The Da Vinci Code author’s latest caper – partly set in Barcelona – is likely to struggle for attention as Spanish readers follow a rather more urgent story

September 2017

  • Stephen King’s house in Bangor, Maine.

    Cities in the spotlight
    Bangor in the spotlight: It release draws horror fans to Stephen King's home

    Stephen King set many of his novels in Derry – a fictional version of his home of Bangor in Maine. With the release of the film version of It, the city once again becomes a tourist destination as the capital of terror

August 2017

  • Fernando Abellanas says city authorities are yet to discover his self-built workplace, which is ‘really well hidden’. All photographs: Jose Manuel Pedrajas

    Parasite architecture: inside the self-built studio hanging under a bridge in Valencia

    Spanish designer Fernando Abellanas has built a workspace that clings to the underbelly of a major overpass, and slides on rollers from one side to the other
  • Zinzi Clemmons

    The first book interview
    Zinzi Clemmons on her first novel: 'I’m proud of it, because I didn’t hold anything back'

    What We Lose is a startlingly experimental and intimate debut, about a character whose complicated cultural identity reflects the author’s own
  • Traditional dancers take part in Kandy’s Esala Perahera, or The Festival of the Tooth.

    Cities in the spotlight
    Kandy in the spotlight: war behind it, Sri Lanka's second city sees a tourist boom

    The cultural capital of Kandy – controversial location for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom – survived Sri Lanka’s civil war relatively intact. Now it’s thriving, thanks in no small part to an infamous relic: one of the Buddha’s teeth

July 2017

  • Natalia Dyer Yes God Yes.

    Shortcuts
    Yes, God, Yes: the film nailing teenage sexuality

  • San Fermin Running of the Bulls

    Cities in the spotlight
    Pamplona in the spotlight: violence mars the home of the bull run

June 2017

  • Jillian Tamaki

    Graphic novelist Jillian Tamaki: 'Our brains are being rewired to exist online'

    The stories in Boundless, her latest collection, show the Canadian author-illustrator pushing the boundaries of the graphic form to reflect a changing world
  • 500 people took part in gay pride in 2009. Numbers have since swelled, according to organisers

    Cities in the spotlight
    Zagreb in the spotlight: 'Homophobia means Pride must be political here'

    As Croatia’s capital readies for one of the Balkans’ only gay pride parades, locals worry the city’s growing potential is being choked by corrupt politics
  • Author Eli Goldstone

    The first book interview
    Eli Goldstone: 'I can’t think of many great books that aren’t funny'

    Strange Heart Beating is the story of a grieving widow, but the debut novelist explains how she has found humour ‘in unusual places’ to tell it

May 2017

  • Would-be immigrants sit atop a border fence separating Morocco from the north African Spanish enclave of Melilla

    Border cities
    In limbo in Melilla: the young refugees trapped in Spain's African enclave

    Reinforced fences in this Spanish enclave in Morocco are designed to shut a notorious gateway to Europe – but have left a fractured and anxious city
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