We like to emphasize the fact that Pere Rovira is an excellent writer, undoubtedly one of the best writing in Catalan today. He recently published, with the Proa publishing house, the volume Life and Illusions, a new installment of his diaries, which include milestones of autobiographical literature such as Daily without days (2004), Vermeer's Window (2016) and Music and pulse (2019). Rovira is also an excellent poet, as evidenced in the volume of his collected poems. Today is always (2022), and in each of his books of verse, which he composes slowly, at intervals. One must also read the two novels he has published so far (Crazy love, from 2007, and The Father's Wars(from 2013). And his translations from French are a joy: Ronsard (Ronsard's Roses), 2009), Baudelaire (The Flowers of Evil, 2021) or the anthology French garden. From Villon to Rimbaud (2016). Without prejudice to the work, let's say youth (the books of poems collected in the volume Poetry 1979-2004)It can be said that the best of Pere Rovira's writing, born in 1947, has been known since his fifties.

Grupo 62 has acquired majority ownership of Ediciones del Periscopio. With this business transaction, the imprint led by Aniol Rafel and Marta Rubirola becomes part of the group. We'll be able to sell the books we were producing without any restrictions and also maintain the distribution we had. We'll work as we have until now, but with greater ease," explains Rafel.

The protagonist of the new novel by Gemma Ruiz Palà (Sabadell, 1975) is a woman who, after half a lifetime of conforming to the rules, decides that from then on she will do what she wants: she leaves home, her children turn their backs on her, she returns to her vocation as a sculptor and goes to Venice, invited by the Art Biennial. "I have written the Hollywood protagonist that I have missed in films," she acknowledged this Monday during the review of the editorial course by Grup 62. "We have learned to do many things through cinema, but something that it has not taught us, at least not women, is to learn to age." Gemma Ruiz Palà has recalled that patriarchy "puts an expiration date on women" and that it erases them after a certain age, as they have expressed, during the years of writingA woman your age –which Proa will publish at the beginning of October–, "great actresses like Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Halle Berry and Emma Vilarasau".

When she was thirteen or fourteen, Najat El Hachmi worked evenings at a local fruit and vegetable shop. "There I realized how hard it is to earn money," she recalls. She used the money she earned to buy a coat. Since then, she hadn't worked as a saleswoman until this Thursday, when her publisher asked her to work as a bookseller at the Casa del Libro on Rambla de Catalunya, alongside authors like Xavier Bosch, Martí Gironell, Toni Cruanyes, Estrella Solé, and Borja de Riquer, ready to recommend their favorite books. What actually happened was that customers who caught the writers standing at the counter took the opportunity to buy their new releases with a dedication. It was an early Sant Jordi, with more peace of mind but no discount.