"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).

During confinement, Estel Solé (Molins de Rei, 1987) began to imagine the story of Lena, a woman overwhelmed by her family and professional life who suffers two small tragedies and decides to leave her with a stranger. Scraping together hours of sleep and juggling work-life balance, Solé turned that idea into a novel and, in an impulse of "absolute unconsciousness", submitted it to the Ramon Llull prize. The actress and writer, creator of shows such as Pets (2015) and poetry collections such as Gifts that seem to be other gifts (Amadeu Oller Award, 2011), explains that he has not yet digested the recognition for this story that is a cry to take the reins of one's own life.