Xavier Gonzàlez-Costa (Berga, 1967), a writer, actor, and cultural activist, is the author of the original lyrics of “L’escut al pit”, the 125th-anniversary anthem of Futbol Club Barcelona. He has published poetry, children’s books, short stories, and plays, and is best known as a playwright.

After studying Economics, he has worked professionally in the areas of finances and corporate journalism, where he is frequently engaged in conceptualising, guiding, and conducting interviews as well as managing cultural or charitable events.

He began to publish poetry in his more mature years, with his plays being performed around the Catalan-speaking territories, working for different media and publishing adult fiction, children's literature and, mostly, poetry with such works as Lluny de qualsevol lloc (Edicions de l'Albí, 2009), Ventrilòquia (Òmicron, 2010), D'un cap de dia a l'altre (Edicions de l'Albí, 2011), or Un llençol blanc (Edicions de l'Albí, 2023), a poetic journal about the first months of the Russo-Ukrainian War.

He has been to more than a dozen African countries and has cooperated with the Vitagers sense Fronteres organisation, of which he has presided for 16 years.

He is a member of the Board of Òmnium Berguedà and one of the authors in the Lletres a les aules (Letters in the Classroom) programme of the Institution of Catalan Letters.

He is a member of the Associació d’Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (AELC – Association of Catalan Language Writers).

Web page: Irene Zurrón Servera for AELC.
Documentation and photographs: Author’s personal files.
Cover photograph: © Jordi Play.
Translated by Julie Wark.