"I wrote the Hollywood leading lady I've been missing in movies."

BarcelonaThe protagonist of the new novel by Gemma Ruiz Palà (Sabadell, 1975) is a woman who, after half a lifetime of conforming to the rules, decides that from then on she will do what she wants: she leaves home, her children turn their backs on her, she returns to her vocation as a sculptor and goes to Venice, invited by the Art Biennial. "I have written the Hollywood protagonist that I have missed in films," she acknowledged this Monday during the review of the editorial course by Grup 62. "We have learned to do many things through cinema, but something that it has not taught us, at least not women, is to learn to age." Gemma Ruiz Palà has recalled that patriarchy "puts an expiration date on women" and that it erases them after a certain age, as they have expressed, during the years of writingA woman your age –which Proa will publish at the beginning of October–, "great actresses like Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Halle Berry and Emma Vilarasau".

Emili Rosales, editorial director of Grup 62, has highlighted, in addition to this new release, the novels of Montse Barderi, Dan Brown, Martí Domínguez, Vanessa Springora and Vicenç Villatoro and the essays by Roger Pol-Droit, Mary Beard, Giuliano da Empoli and Byung Chul-Han, which will be added to the publisher's catalogue with About God. Thinking with Simone Weil. In poetry, there was a long-awaited piece of news for readers: the release of "Four essential books by Josep Carnerafter years of being discontinued, including Nabi and The enchanted glass.Carme Riera will be in the news twice again: with the reissue of one of her most emblematic titles, I leave you, love, the sea as a pledge, and Thank you, a "book that straddles memoirs and literary theory." Rosales also announced one of the major projects that Proa will publish in 2026: the first Catalan translation of The lives of the most excellent painters, writers and architects, with which Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) "founded the history of art and created Italian prose, just as Dante did with poetry."

"At Grup 62 we celebrate another year that the book not only survives, but continues to grow: last year it did so by 5%," said the group's president, Josep Ramoneda. "From our fifteen imprints we publish around 500 titles a year, with the ambition of reaching all readers in the Catalan language," he continued. "It is good news that the age group in which reading grows the most is that of young people. The boom in genres such as romanticasy has been combined with a revaluation of the paperback book." Among the titles most popular among the group's readers in 2025 are the new novels by Xavier Bosch, Estel Solé and Marta Orriols, essays such as that of David Bueno and volumes of memoirs such as Chocolate Street, of Ramon Solsona.