More than sixty Catalan authors They have traveled to Mexico to represent Barcelona at the 39th International Book Fair (FIL) From Guadalajara, where the city is the guest of honor. Ten of the participants summarize their journey across the Atlantic in their own words.

Gemma Ruiz (Sabadell, 1975) returns to bookstores two years after the successful novel Our mothers, with which he received the Sant Jordi award. And he does so with A woman your age (Proa), a story about family, sex, art, friendship, and touristification in which artist Kate Gold decides to break away from everything and take back control of her life, her vocation, her independence, and her self-love.

Summer is coming to its final weeks and, with the change of season, so does the rentrée Literary. September is traditionally a month packed with new releases in the publishing market, many of which mark the start of the school year. We've selected the 25 most promising.

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".