Allow me, to begin, to express the pride and satisfaction, as someone would say, that a day as well celebrated as yesterday's Sant Jordi provokes. We can congratulate ourselves. We can congratulate ourselves.We know Regina well, at ARA, especially the newspaper's audiovisual team, of which she was a part. Regina, more than connecting with readers' tastes, has connected with readers' hearts, and such a phenomenon is unbeatable. Regina conveys truth. Added to this is the mastery of fresh and fun narrative technique, the result is yesterday's: number 1. This morning I spoke with her and she told me she was happy, for among other reasons, because it was also the triumph of humor in Catalan. has connected with readers' hearts, and such a phenomenon is unbeatable. Regina conveys truth. Added to this is the mastery of fresh and fun narrative technique, the result is yesterday's: number 1. This morning I spoke with her and she told me she was happy, for among other reasons, because it was also the triumph of humor in Catalan.

The Cambra del Llibre released this Thursday a provisional but quite accurate list of the best-selling books for Sant Jordi. In Catalan, the top positions are held by Regina Rodríguez Sirvent (fiction), Òscar Andreu (non-fiction), and Míriam Tirado (children and young adult). In Spanish, the best-sellers have been Eduardo Mendoza (fiction), Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita (non-fiction), and Emma Gil (children and young adult). According to data from the Cambra del Llibre, total sales for Sant Jordi 2026 are close to 27 million euros, almost a million more than last year.

Absolute success for the comedian and communicator Òscar Andreu this Sant Jordi with Manual de defensa del català (Univers): he started signing at the Plataforma per la Llengua stand and a queue of about a hundred people formed. The book was released on April 7th with an edition of 16,500 copies. At Plataforma per la Llengua, it has sold out. While a reader told him family stories related to learning Catalan, Andreu didn't look up from the book and continued signing non-stop. Impossible to talk to him. “I like his humor, and everything related to language interests me,” says a reader, Carles Vila. “Long live Catalan and long live Catalonia!” exclaim a couple, Miquel and Emma, while Òscar Andreu signs their copy.

After walking through Catalonia, the monologue Crida als ocells de colors llampants —still on tour—, the communicator and humorist Òscar Andreu (Terrassa, 1975) turns that linguistic manifesto into Manual de defensa del català (Univers), a small book about practicing, understanding, and extending good linguistic habits. The co-director of La competència on RAC 1 and presenter of l'Està passant on TV3 explains his linguistic autobiography, a striptease that will make more than one blush.

Òscar Andreu Fernández (Terrassa, 1975) said when he was young that in 2000 he would be 25 years old and it seemed impossible to him that in 2025 he would be 50. Well, this moment has arrived and Òscar has a partner, two children (one five years old and the other one and a half years old), two stable and successful jobs (The competition, in Rac1, and It is passing, on TV3) and a monologue (Flashy colored ocells), which is the linguistic autobiography of a boy who until the age of 18 only spoke Catalan with his mother, who at 40 becomes aware of the unjust situation the language is experiencing in Catalonia and now denounces it on stage or in this very conversation.