Irene Pujadas and Silvana Vogt win the Ventanas narrative awards
Sebas Martín, a leading figure in queer comics, wins the Finestres award for unpublished work.
BarcelonaThe Finestres Foundation presented its four awards for the best published works of the year and the comic book award for unpublished work on Thursday evening. The intruder (La Otra Editorial), by Irene Pujadas, has won in the Catalan narrative category and The fine art of creating monsters (H&O), by Silvana Vogt, has received the Ventanas Prize for narrative in Spanish. The prize money for each Ventanas award is 25,000 euros.
The benchmark for comics queer Sebas Martín has won the Ventanas Comic Award, the most important comic book prize in Catalan, for an unpublished work, which is still untitled and will be published by Finestres. Martín's graphic novel is a thriller A police drama that moves between the beginning of the 20th century and the present day, between a group queer From the Noucentista circles, Els Refinats, comprised of Laura Albèniz, Mariano Andreu, Néstor Martín-Fernández, and Ismael Smith, and a serial killer from 2025 who murders using literary prizes. Indo Casal and Niko Vives won an Honorable Mention in the Talent Novell competition (worth 15,000 euros) with a story about accepting one's own identity.
This year, the Finestres Awards added two new comic book categories for titles published in 2025: the Ventanas de Cómic Award for Best Work, which went to Creamed gums (Reservoir Books), by Natalia Velarde; and the Ventanas de Cómic Award for Best Children's and Young Adult Work, which has gone to Super potato against nanomalice (Bang Ediciones), by Artur Laperla.
