The 7lletres literary prize is entering a new phase with a name change intended to reinforce its identity and cultural ambition. The 21st edition, presented at Concabella Castle, officially adopts the name 7letres. Manuel de Pedrolo Short Story Prize, a decision that explicitly links the award to the writer from Aranyó and strengthens its position within the Catalan literary scene. The presentation on Monday brought together representatives from the Segarra County Council, the Cervera City Council, the Els Plans de Sió Town Council, and the Tàrrega Town Council—the four institutions that promote the project and have renewed their collaboration agreement. This image of institutional unity reinforces a model of cultural cooperation that, from a local perspective, has successfully consolidated an initiative launched in 2006 with the aim of honoring Pedrolo and, at the same time, stimulating contemporary creative writing.

The journalist and delegate of ARA in Girona, Mariona Ferrer i Fornells, won this Thursday the award for the best press work in the XVII edition of the Carles Rahola Awards for Local Communication, which recognize the work of the journalistic profession in the Girona region. Instead of rewarding her for a single piece, as is usually the case, the jury decided to honor her for the set of articles presented, three reports published in ARA and one in the magazine Arrels, because it considers that they offer "close-up views built on local journalistic commitment".

The journalist and ARA's delegate in Girona, Mariona Ferrer i Fornells, won this Thursday the award for the best press work in the XVII edition of the Carles Rahola Awards for Local Communication, which recognize the work of the journalistic profession in the Girona region. Instead of awarding her for a single piece, as is usually the case, the jury decided to honor her for the collection of articles presented, three reports published in ARA and one in the magazine Arrels, because they consider that they offer "close-up views built on local journalistic commitment".

Bad Bunny has achieved a historic milestone in his career and for Spanish-language music. The Puerto Rican musician won the Grammy for Album of the Year on Sunday, the most important category at the awards ceremony, which celebrated its 68th edition. The event was marked by political messages and criticism of Donald Trump's immigration policies and the controversial ICE, Immigration and Border Protection.

El Vendrell has sold all 35 winning tickets for the top prize in the New Year's Eve lottery, number 1379. The winning number is drawn on the last day of the year. A total of seven million euros has been distributed across the 35 series sold from a tobacconist's shop on Café Street in the capital of the Baix Penedès region. Winners will receive 200,000 euros for each ticket played. The winning combination demonstrates, once again, that chance doesn't discriminate based on numbers, and that all the balls in the lottery drum have the same chance. "It's a number that not everyone buys because it has a zero in front of it, and it's one you wouldn't normally choose, but sometimes those numbers that we're not used to buying come up," explained Marc Latorre, who owns the shop with his mother. Rosa Sabater has been running the shop for forty years and had never sold such a large winning ticket before. "I'm semi-retired, but I still do a little work, and the other day, jokingly, I said, 'I'll retire the day I win the jackpot,'" she exclaimed. For now, part of that prediction has come true.

The El Niño lottery has showered Catalonia with good fortune this year. The first prize in the Three Kings' Day raffle went to 06703, a number widely distributed throughout Spain and especially in Catalonia, where winning tickets were sold in a dozen municipalities, including Barcelona, ​​Mataró, Sabadell, and Terrassa. The lucky winners will take home €200,000 per ticket.

The International Foundation for Women Entrepreneurs (FIDEM) celebrated the 28th edition of the FIDEM Awards at the CosmoCaixa Science Museum, an annual tribute to the talent, determination, and excellence of women entrepreneurs and executives in Catalonia. The gala presented eight awards recognizing female leadership in projects and careers that have significantly contributed to economic and social progress, as well as to equal opportunities. Josep Rull, President of the Parliament of Catalonia, closed the event, along with Cristina Cabañas, President of FIDEM, and a message of institutional support from the Mayor of Barcelona, ​​Jaume Collboni.

At the ARA newspaper, we have a new emblem: "The Clever Fox." This animal, screen-printed on a tile, is the prize that will be awarded this Tuesday night. Twenty-five Girona residents received awards in 2025In a society and a communications environment marked by the herd mentality of social media, a fox escapes the flock with the ARA (Argentine Navy) in its mouth. She wants to be well-informed. It is these kinds of discerning readers who make the newspaper possible and who filled the old [newsstand/newsroom] this Tuesday. Odeon Theatre of Girona, brilliantly restored to house a bicycle shop. Yes, Girona is the cycling capitalFor one afternoon, cycling rhymed with journalism, and for one afternoon, the love-hate relationship of Girona residents with bicycles softened. The city's mayor, Lluc Salellas, set foot in the renovated Odeon for the first time. And like him, many other Girona residents. Journalism broke down barriers.

ARA Girona held an awards ceremony on Tuesday, November 11th, entitled "The 25 People from Girona Who Shaped 2025." These unique, inclusive, and diverse awards highlight the stories and individuals who exemplify Girona's talent and deserve greater recognition. Presented by the ARA Girona team, the event took place in the former Odeon Theatre in Girona's Old Quarter (Barri Vell), which reopened this year as a cycling venue thanks to Velodrom. With over 150 people in attendance, the event marked the first major social gathering at the iconic, recently renovated venue in a city that has not traditionally been associated with sports. The party, sponsored by Marlex and supported by the Girona Provincial Council, Odeon-Velodrom, La Maglia Coffee & Co, the Cantallops winery Vinyes dels Aspres, and Rispa craft beer, featured a musical performance by the half-hookish, half-Ibiza duo L'Arannà.

In the emblematic Odeon Theatre of Girona, Recently restored and transformed into a grand cycling venue, the ARA Girona celebrated the launch of its first awards on Tuesday evening. Named afterThe 25 players from Girona who have scored in 2025These new awards aim to give visibility to relevant and interesting people and projects from the region, but little known to the general public. The award winners are not big names or the most illustrious figures from the Girona region, but rather a collection of stories and personalities that readers have discovered through news articles, reports, and interviews published in the newspaper over the past year. The event brought together more than 150 people, including authorities such as the mayor of Girona, Lluc Salellas; the president of the Provincial Council, Miquel Noguer; and the Minister of Territory, Housing, and Transport, Sílvia Paneque, as well as the director of ARA, Esther Vera.

Today, the 25th Night of Catalan Magazines and Press was held at the Casino la Aliança del Poblenou in Barcelona. This awards ceremony, organized by APPEC (Association of Catalan Periodical Publications), celebrates Catalan-language magazines as a safe space for reading and a driving force of Catalan culture, and also brings together magazine and digital media publishers. The broadcaster and comedian Peyu—former presenter ofThe bunker, from Catalunya Ràdio, and the current one from The Renaissance— has won the Communication Prize, and Joana Serra, a philologist, activist, and bookseller from Northern Catalonia, has won the Culture Prize for her commitment to the Catalan language and to publications written in Catalan. Germà Capdevila, president of the association, emphasized that the Catalan-language magazine and newspaper publishing sector is a fundamental part of the country's cultural ecosystem and is often the driving force in other areas such as literature, music, and the performing arts: "Without a strong publishing network," the rest of the cultural sector suffers. Regarding the future of the organization, Capdevila stated that he will launch a new strategic plan for the next decade, structured around four key pillars: advertising, dissemination and distribution, promotion, and training. A total of twelve prizes and three lifetime achievement awards were presented. The prize for best publication was awarded to Solstice in the magazine category for its exquisite attention to detail and high level of care in all aspects, New Basin in the press for her exemplary career and in Time Out Barcelona In the digital category, it was recognized as a leading voice in the city's leisure and culture scene. The best feature article was awarded to David Marin for... A real journey into noir fiction, published in the magazine Horizons, with photographs by Santi Iglesias and infographics by Arnau Torrente, and in International Brigades in Cambrils, by Andreu Dalmau, published in Cambrils Magazine. Oryx, Som Garrigues and The New Barcelona Post They have won the award for best editorial design.

The wine world gathered on Friday night at the Casal Theater in Vilafranca del Penedès to attend the 13th edition of the Vinari Awards, the Catalan wine competition. This event awards silver, gold, and grand gold medals in various categories, as well as special prizes, such as Best Wine of 2025, which this year went to Gran Murallas from the Torres family, and Best Sparkling Wine, which went to Corpinnat Maria Bernet from the Júlia Ber winery. We review each of the awards.

"I have a reputation for being politically incorrect because I say things that people don't dare say," said Ferran Adrià today in Escaldes-Engordany. The chef from Hospitalet de Llobregat received the honorary Andorra Taste Award and in his speech, he didn't mince his words when it came to sharing his vision of the world of gastronomy. Some of his reflections included that "we must distinguish between food and gastronomy: gastronomy is linked to quality, and a restaurant that has all its seafood frozen is not gastronomic."

After the chaos caused by the error that forced the Ministry of Education to repeat more than 50,000 teaching awards in the month of July, schools and institutes face the school year with an uncertainty that has been present for years: which teachers will be added to their teaching staff. One of the most unpredictable pieces of this puzzle is the number of teachers who, once the final appointments for the school year have been made (on June 11, using data from vacancies as of the end of May), are leaving their jobs. A situation that, according to data provided by the department to ARA, 1,319 teachers have experienced this summer, either due to retirement, because they have changed jobs, or because they have moved to other regions—many to the Valencian Country—leaving their positions empty at a time when the mechanism for filling them is halted during the summer holidays.

Leo the interview with the counselor after the botched allocation of places in the Department of Education. To begin with, it must be said that this Catalan word, botched job, is magnificent. Nyap means something unsuccessful, poorly done. It is said in Coromines that botching also means "to seize something violently, or suddenly." Nyap comes from naño, "a wound that someone gets as a result of a blow." All these connotations of something sudden, violent (given how it affects people), poorly done, clumsy, or dented could be applied to the subject of recent headlines.

Remove from public works those construction companies that have been implicated in corruption, whether through bribery, bid rigging, or other malpractices. Alleged kickbacks surrounding the last two PSOE organizational secretaries, José Luis Ábalos and Santos Cerdán, and the former advisor to the former, Koldo García. If Pedro Sánchez takes up the challenge of these proposals—it is expected that this Wednesday, coinciding with the plenary session in the Congress of Deputies, the Spanish president will announce measures to combat corruption—it is necessary to keep in mind that Spain is not starting from scratch regarding the possibility of applying this veto to certain companies when accessing public contracts. Inspired by European directives, it already includes this penalty. In fact, the European Commission is examining its directives and is expected to release its analysis and, therefore, possible modifications in the last quarter of the year. The Spanish government is also seeking to strengthen its capacity to carry out its work ... The Spanish government is also seeking to strengthen its capacity to carry out its work. For example, if a company has been sanctioned for misrepresentation of competition, the National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC) intervenes. Since 2023, it can set the duration and scope of the ban based on criteria related to competition between companies, and "the aim is to increase security." This is the body responsible for ensuring the defense of competition in the State.

The Teatre Nacional de Catalunya will host the first edition of its new awards on June 20th. These are the Crit Awards, which seek to recognize excellence in the creation of content in the digital sphere and in the Catalan language. The initiative is promoted by 3Cat, the Association of Information and Communication Media (AMIC), and the Fundació puntCat.

The day of the Watusi He is the big winner of the 27th Critics' Awards for the Performing Arts, which were presented this Monday at a gala at the Teatre Romea. The theatrical adaptation From the novel by Francisco Casavella, directed by Iván Morales, took home six awards: Best Show, Best Direction, Best Adaptation, Best Actor for Enric Auquer, Best Supporting Actress for Raquel Ferri, and Best Supporting Actor for Guillem Balart. The other big winner of the night was the musical Soul, which opened the season of the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya last September. The production co-written by Blanca Bardagil, Oriol Burés, Víctor G. Casademunt and Marc Gómez has garnered four awards: best musical show, best music for Adrià Barbosa and Abel Garriga, best actress in a musical for Paula Malia and best costume design for Oriol Burés.

10 years ago, Sean Baker released a film, Tangerine, about two transgender prostitutes from Los Angeles who worked mostly at the intersection of Santa Monica and Highland. Just a 15-minute walk from that corner, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Baker collected the Oscar for best film on Monday for another vibrant, tender and funny story about sex workers. Anora, the best film of 2024 according to the ARA critics, has won a total of five Oscars: best film, director, actress, original screenplay and editing. A fair and important triumph, because it rewards an independent cinema that always stands by the oppressed and the marginalized, that gives voice to the most invisible in American society and that celebrates the beauty and imperfection of its protagonists without paternalism or condescension.

The nerves are beginning to show among the nominees for the most important awards in international cinema. Although the preparations for the grand gala are the same for all nominees, only a few will be declared winners. To alleviate the frustrations of long races and months of work on their respective films, for 23 editions there has been a consolation prize: the Distinctive Assets, this year valued at more than 200,000 euros.