The announcement by Barcelona City Council of a new literary grant for Latin American authors The event held at the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) has stirred up controversy in the Catalan cultural and political world. Complaints from writers like Núria Cadenes and Melcior Comes have been joined by those from the Association of Writers in the Catalan Language (AELC), and finally, political unease: both the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and Together for Catalonia (Junts per Catalunya) have called for its removal. For its part, the City Council's Deputy Mayor for Culture, Xavier Marcé, explained to Guadalajara that he finds it difficult "to see a controversy in this matter." According to Marcé, what should be done is to examine "the commitment to Catalan in relation to the overall initiatives and not just this specific action."

Last year, one in four authors from the Catalan Association of Dramaturgy (ACD) did not receive payment for their work. And the situation has improved: in 2021, it was two out of four. To put an end to these situations, six authors' organizations have drawn up the Manual of good practices in the performing arts, a document that lays the foundations for contracting in this field and establishes the conditions under which work should be carried out. "Imagine that you have a job interview and they tell you that you can start the next day. You go home happy and explain it to your friends. But when they ask you how much you will be paid, you don't know how to answer. You haven't signed a contract. This irregular situation, which many professionals in other fields would not accept, is very common in culture, hundreds of associated authors.