The journalist Montse Virgili (Tarragona, 1976), presenter of the program Las mujeres y los días from Catalunya Ràdio, makes her literary debut with Los pajaritos (La Magrana), a novel about the women who have marked her. From the fishmonger who was missing half an arm and the pastry chef who gave her sweets for no reason to the almost illiterate grandmother who wrote in Spanish, Virgili crafts a narrative collage that precisely captures childhood in the 80s and is, at the same time, a strong tribute to the women silenced by the patriarchy.

In a family of farmers, bricklayers and housewives, the journalist Montse Virgili (Tarragona, 1976) was the second person to go to university. Before studying journalism, she studied law, because at home they thought she was going to have "a profitable career." And although it was "the price to be able to leave home," she is now glad to have studied, she emphasizes in statements to theCompanies.