"I love it! I want a shirt like yours!" This is what Eduard Escoffet, director of the Institution of Catalan Letters, told the pharmaceutical businessman Sergi Ferrer-Salat. They met at the end of the award ceremony. Windows Awards, which is organized by the bookstore of the same name, and of which Ferrer-Salat is founder and patron. The T-shirt in question could seem like a kind of joke, because it said "Tax the rich", and who the speaker was, certainly, a rich person. But Ferrer-Salat does not have irony, both, and the prova will be the speech that will give the act. After the welcome to the presenter, Ana Polo, will speak Estefania Rico, who directs the Ferrer Foundations. He will quote the economist Frenchman Thomas Piketty, who defends the creation of a progressive impost, which would tax the people with the most assets, which would allow the wealth to be redistributed, more concentrated, and would allow to increase resources to finance public services and social programs. quick x-ray of inequalities to the city of Barcelona, ​​​​and recovered a fact that I do not stop repeating, but that still felt a reality: the culture budget of the Generalitat faces no more than 2%. It appears that 2024 will achieve a historical record, 1.7%, and Minister Sònia Hernández is working so that by 2025 the symbolic figure of 2% will be reached. I say symbolic because the figure has already become this, a kind of symbol, but also because, frankly, 2% for culture I don't think is throwing the house out of the window. But that debate, another day.

In the early hours of December 16, 2005, three young men set fire to Rosario Endrinal, a homeless woman who was sleeping in an ATM in the Sant Gervasi neighborhood of Barcelona. When Ferran Grau (Lleida, 1982) learned about the events of the so-called ATM Crime, he realized that that same day he had walked past the ATM without noticing Endrinal. "I asked myself who was more murderous, those boys who killed her or me, who didn't see her, as if she were part of the street furniture," recalls Grau. Two decades later, Grau has won the Ventanas prize for narrative in Catalan for the best book of 2024 for Hyperrabies (Angle), the novel about that crime and its perpetrators.