In the first quarter of the year, Marc Artigau (Barcelona, 1984) donned the playwright's hat and premiered the comedy about Alzheimer's Una festa a Roma, directed by Clara Segura at the Teatre Lliure. In the second quarter, for Sant Jordi, the playwright puts on the narrator's hat and presents the collection of short stories Aquest serà el nostre pou (Empúries), which has just won the Mercè Rodoreda prize at the Catalan Letters Night.

I read about a commotion Don't bother answering me (Empúries, 2026), the book that collects the letters that were sent Salvador Espriu and Joan VinyoliThey are not particularly poetic, political, or socially contextual letters. They are personal lettersThe messages exchanged between two friends to celebrate life's triumphs and lament its sorrows and disappointments. In total, they contain forty letters from Espriu to Vinyoli, eight from Espriu to Teresa Sastre (Vinyoli's wife), and only seven from Vinyoli to Espriu.

There are two types of writers: those with imagination and those without, though this doesn't determine their literary worth. Those who have imagination are capable of expanding reality and creating worlds governed by their own rules. Mar Bosch Oliveras (Girona, 1981) was an imaginative author and we already knew from her novels that she had what is called "her own world" You will come with me after the flood (Comanegra, 2018) or The effervescent woman (Univers, 2020), and the stories collected in Lessons from the abyss They confirm it.

Use the lyrics from the album Main Festival of La Trinca as the common thread of a novel that could be the script for the next installment of Fast and Furious It's nothing short of genius. Edgar Cantero She answers with a slap in the face and a smile to all the self-important know-it-alls who wonder if Catalan "is ready to explain certain things" or who complain that Catalan literature "doesn't yet cultivate all genres." There's no need to hold a round table discussion to reflect on her: like in action movies, the answer lies in the facts.

We know Vanessa Springora on the impact of her first book, Consent (published in French in 2020 and in Catalan in 2021). The volume narrates her seduction by the writer Gabriel Matzneff when she was a teenager. She was in love, her mother consented to the relationship (hence the title), and he was a known pedophilia propagandist. In the absence of her father, living with her estranged mother, Springora fell prey to a collector of young girls—and young boys—who didn't hesitate to turn many of her literary works into apologetics for pedophilia.

In The ceremonySayaka Murata (Inzai, 1979), one of the most interesting writers on the Japanese narrative scene, has decided to reflect on the concept of normality. Humor and fantasy combine in a writer determined to defend difference, people who do not fit into a society full of pre-established, often stupid, norms. Themes such as family, friendship, sex, loneliness, and selfishness hover throughout the stories of the author of best-seller The girl from the 24-hour store (2016), motifs that he analyzes from a perspective tinged with strangeness and grotesquery.