"I'm still processing this milestone: I never would have thought that such an award could cross my path," he said this Friday at noon. Agnès Marquès Pujolar (Palma, 1979) during the press conference in which it was announced that she was the author chosen by the jury as the winner of the Ramon Llull 2026 prize, endowed with 60,000 euros. The Second Life of Geneva Vern It is the second novel by the journalist, who currently directs the program Catalonia night from Catalunya Ràdio and who debuted as a narrator with Nobody knows I'm here (Column, 2022). It will be published on February 25th in Column (and in Destino in Spanish).

The book sector had a very good year in 2020, seeing its turnover exceed that of 2019. One of the first effects of this growth will be reflected in the next Planeta Prize, which this year celebrates its 70th edition and will be awarded this Friday. The award will increase its endowment to €1m (until now it was at €600,000), above the Nobel Prize for Literature, which hands out €950,000. Thus, the Planeta Prize becomes the best-endowed literature prize in the world. With this increase, Planeta wants to "recognise the effort and talent of authors" and contribute to the dissemination of reading. "We believe that a society that reads is a better society", said the president of Grupo Planeta, José Crehueras, who added that he does not want to "enter into a competition with other prizes" in terms of the prize money. The rules of this year's edition set the prize at €600,000, but Crehueras believes that "the winner will not complain if we increase the prize to €1m".