Matthew Tree

Matthew Tree (born December 30, 1958) is a writer in English and Catalan. He has lived in Catalonia (Barcelona and Banyoles) since 1984.

Work
Apart from publishing 14 works of fiction and non-fiction written in both Catalan and English, he is a contributor to various newspapers and magazines such as Catalonia Today, The Times Literary Supplement, and El Punt Avui. He has also appeared on various Catalan language radio and TV stations. In 2005 and 2006 he scripted and presented two series of the infotainment programme Passatgers for TV3 (Catalan Public Television). He now writes scripts for and contributes to the English language cultural programme The Weekly Mag, broadcast with Catalan subtitles by La Xarxa de Comunicacions. He is currently revising one novel in English and writing another.

Politically, Tree has declared his support for Catalan independence from a left-wing point of view.