Philologist and former member of the Congress of Deputies for En Comú Podem, Mar García Puig (Barcelona, ​​​​1977) surprised a lot with his first book, The history of vertebrates –which received the Ciutat de Barcelona Award in the essay, humanities, and history categories–, where she openly poured out her experience on the little-explored alliance between motherhood and mental health. I was captivated by its stark sincerity and because it was filtered through the lens of her literary training, and the result was a very balanced combination of sanity and rapture, between stark experience and thoughtful awareness.

You are right Albert Sanchez Piñol (Barcelona, ​​​​1965) when he says that his latest book is as unclassifiable as many of the characters that appear in it. The darkness of the heart (La Campana, 2025) mixes, with commendable skill, history, biographical essay, anthropology, unlikely anecdotes and the author's own experience. Cold skin, who traveled to the Congo in the late 1990s to write reports for an NGO and ended up discovering a surprise that turned his life upside down.

Patricia Martínez del Hoyo Guri studied humanities. A screenwriter and multifaceted creative, she is currently the head of EVA, the channel for 3Cat's generation Z. The novel We have lost ourselves is his literary debut. A debut that, unfortunately, shows too many of the flaws of many first work: the migrated development of the characters, a poorly structured plot, an irregular rhythm, the excessive exposition of information and of a subject matter that is too heterogeneous, the lack of revision and editing that affect coherence and, above all, a language that is poorly elaborated on a literary level.

Katharina Volker's first novel explains, in a first-person monologue, Sarah's visit to the doctor who has to operate on her to "set her free" from her vagina.. The protagonist of The Appointment (La Campana / Anagrama, 2021) tells, with an often very black sense of humour, the series of identity problems - national and intimate - that have led her to make the decision to change her sex. Sarah's testimony, dense, shocking and at times lyrical, is in the process of being translated into fifteen languages after the book was well received in the United Kingdom, where the author, born in Germany in 1987, has been living for fifteen years.