In an event held in Montserrat, the winners of the 60th edition of the Crítica Serra d'Or awards were announced this Wednesday. Núria Perpinyà received the award for best novel with "El cos invisible"; Raül Garrigasait, the one for essay with "La roca i l'aire. Art i religió de Llull a Tàpies", and Sebastià Alzamora, the one for poetry with "Sala Augusta". And the award for best translation goes to Anna Casassas for the translation of "Germinal", by Émile Zola.

Writing often serves to understand, at least for Núria Perpiñán (Lleida, 1961). Each new novel by the writer is a journey into an unknown landscape, from fog and madness to Mistana (Proa, 2005; Critics' Award) to a world without water in Diatom (The Granada, 2022)Her latest obsession led her to think about the dualism between the flesh and the mind, so to unravel the entanglement she decided to throw herself headfirst—literarily—into a human body. The invisible body (La Magrana, 2025), Perpignan imagines an enzyme, Ubis Q10, that runs through every corner of the woman who lives within it in a fascinating epic, written in vibrant Catalan and full of funny moments. "How could I demonstrate that our body is intelligent and, biologically, a prodigy? I had to go inward," explains the author.