Mercè Canela (born 1956, Sant Guim de Freixenet, la Segarra) is a Catalan writer and translator.
In 1976, the publishing house La Galera published one of her books for teenagers De qui és el bosc?, and she won the Josep M. Folch i Torres award with L'escarabat verd.
In 1984, she was included in the Honour List of IBBY[1] with Asperú, joglar embruixat.
She has translated to Catalan several works in German, French and Italian.
Besides, she published: Un passeig pel Poble Espanyol (Beta, Barcelona, 1998), a book which explains the history of Poble Espanyol, in Montjuïc, in Barcelona.