It was a surprise that Irene Rubio Martínez (Sallent, 1991) didn't submit her entry for the Documenta Prize. She hesitated until the very last minute, and a friend waited outside Documenta on September 19th to make sure she didn't back out. She was right to do so, because the jury decided to award her first novel. You will be the valleywhich presents a dystopian and devastated scenario with several female voices. "The literary ambition, a world of its own that is both dark and luminous, powerful narrative voices, and the imaginative, unsettling, and deeply believable construction of a world in which nature and city are violently confronted, make the winning work an original and vibrant proposal that looks directly at the present and speaks, among many other things, of patriarchy," says the jury made up of Albert Forns, Roser Cabré-Verdiell, Pau Vidal, Èric del Arco, and Eugenia Broggi.

American author Kay Hymowitz wrote the essay Manning up In 2011, Hymowitz describes a new stage of life, pre-adulthood, a period between adolescence and adulthood, which she links to prolonged education, difficulty accessing credit, postponing family formation, and the digital leisure culture. Hymowitz describes how this new phenomenon has had a more negative impact on men, since women have a clearer biological clock, which warns us when it's time for pre-adulthood to end. It should not be forgotten that access to a well-paid job or owning a home have become undertakings worthy of Frodo Saquet and the Fellowship of the Ring. Hymowitz then argues that, without a clear life plan, many young men easily become trapped in a "man-creature" culture: they enjoy the privileges of adulthood (sex, consumption, freedom of movement) but avoid the obligations (own finances, family, caregiving).