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For the Catalan autonomous elections of 21 December 2017, Bel Olid participated in the lists of the leftist independence coalition Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) for Barcelona.

In October 2014, together with the writers Josep Maria Espinàs and Albert Sánchez Piñol, she presented the Writers' Manifesto for Independence, signed by more than 300 writers in favor of the independence of Catalonia.

In 2013 she was elected president of the European Council of Associations of Literary Translators [es] (CEATL), and in March 2015 she was elected President of the Association of Writers in Catalan, replacing Guillem-Jordi Graells [ca] .

In 2011, Olid published her first novel, Una terra solitària, in which she portrays Andalusian immigration in Catalonia together with cultural, social, and sexual identity in the background, and in which she also introduces the problem of sexual abuse. In 2012 she published La mala reputació (Bad Reputation), awarded with the 2013 Roc Boronat de Narrativa.

In 2010 she published the essay Les heroïnes contraataquen: models literaris contra l'universal masculí, which received the Rovelló Award.

In 2008 she published the storybook Estela, grita muy fuerte to help prevent child abuse, released by the Fineo publishing house for the Rana Association (Help Network for Abused Children) of the Balearic Islands. It received the QWERTY Award for best children's book.

Born in Mataró, the daughter of immigrants from another region of Spain, Bel Olid earned a licentiate in Translation and Interpreting from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 1999, and has since dedicated herself to the translation of books and films. She has worked as a language and literature teacher since 2005. In 2010 she obtained a master's degree in Language and Literature Didactics. She has translated works into Catalan from English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish. She is a member of the Gretel children's and youth literature research group at the UAB.

Isabel Olid Báez (born 4 October 1977), known as Bel Olid, is a Catalan writer, translator, and teacher of language, literature, translation, and creative writing. She has received several literary prizes, among them the 2010 Documenta Award [es] . Since March 2015 she has been the president of the Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana.