A black cat in the garden It is a collection of eight stories set in small towns and starring women who love from a heartbreaking nostalgia, from "a rage" that "disfigured" the narrator. Before winning ex aequo the Documenta award with this book, Irene Zurrón (Palma, 1990) wrote a children's novel, The tribe in the middle of the mountain (Tándem, 2021), but A black cat in the garden is her debut in short fiction. A debut that doesn't seem like one thanks to the quality of the writing, the refined style and the powerful language that the author masters with ease.

Few literary awards can boast a 45-year history like Documenta. "Our goal continues to be to find voices that are forward-looking proposals to enrich the Catalan literary scene," says Èric del Arco, who has been a member of the the Documenta bookstore promotes the award, along with La Otra Editorial. This year, and unintentionally, the jury ended up awarding two works instead of one: The screams, second novel by Víctor Recort, and A black cat in the garden, Irene Zurrón's short story debut.