Who has won the Girona Literary Awards 2026?
In this year's list of winners there are, among other names, Jordi Campoy and Laia Aguilar
BarcelonaThe Fundació Prudenci Bertrana has made public the four literary awards it presents annually: the Prudenci Bertrana novel award has gone to Fer cantar els arbres, by Jordi Campoy; the Miquel de Palol poetry award to Horografia, by Joan Tomàs Martínez Grimalt; the Carles Rahola essay award to Terra de Quixots, by Joan Manuel Soldevilla, and the Ramon Muntaner youth novel award, finally, has been won by La fuga, by Laia Aguilar.
Campoy, a pianist, composer, and music producer who has previously published novels such as La cantant de fado and La noia del violoncel –both published by Columna, the publishing house that publishes the Bertrana prize, endowed with 30,000 euros–, returns to focus on music in his new novel. Fer cantar els arbres is "a captivating story about a lineage of luthiers marked by a mystery that spans generations", as the publisher advances. Horografia, by Mallorcan Joan Tomàs Martínez Grimalt, will receive the 6,000 euros of the 49th Miquel de Palol award and has been defined as "a book about the constant state of suspension in which language and life leave us" and explains "the wandering of the individual, inevitably immersed in the drift of hours and in a path of constant exhaustion".
L'Empordà, land of geniuses
Land of Quixotes, 47th Carles Rahola essay prize, by Joan Manuel Soldevilla, a novelist and essayist expert in comics, approaches several illustrated Empordà natives, among whom are Salvador Dalí, Narcís Monturiol, Carles Fages de Climent, Vicenç Pagès Jordà, and Federico García Lorca.
Laia Aguilar, author of Wolfgang, has received the 6,000 euros from the 41st Ramon Muntaner youth novel prize with La fuga. The story is set in the near future, after a lethal virus released by melting ice has changed the world and, to survive, society has imposed a radical measure: isolate all minors, who are carriers.