"I have always been fascinated by the figure of the 'indians', but there is a lot of myth surrounding them," explains the novelist, screenwriter and playwright Pere Anglas (Mataró, 1966), who has won the Nèstor Luján historical novel prize with El sastre de Barcelona (Columna). Historiography has already taken care of dismantling the myth of impoverished men who traveled to Cuba and Puerto Rico and returned very rich thanks to their intelligence and effort. There was also the exploitation of slave labor, and one of the men who profited most from it was Antonio López.

The Catalan Academy of Gastronomy and Nutrition has recognized ARA journalist Trinitat Gilbert with the Néstor Luján prize for gastronomic journalism for her series of articles "The foods we eat, in detail". In these reports, Gilbert delves into lesser-known aspects of very common foods, such as cured meats, yogurts, fish, or olive oil. The jury has highlighted "its ability to combine rigorous dissemination, gastronomic culture and journalistic criteria, as well as a consolidated career in different formats and media". Two years ago, the prize also went to a collaborator of ARA, in this case to writer Empar Moliner and her eagerness to promote Catalan wine.

Ernest Prunera (Sabadell, 1973) wanted to write a biography of Guifré el Pilós, but when he set about it he found that the information about that period, the second half of the 9th century, was "scarce and uncertain", so he changed his mind and allowed fiction into the project, which became one. When the storm passes (Column) imagines the childhood of Guifré el Pilós, when he was still a child without honors or glory. The book features Marwan, a young homosexual Muslim who acts as Guifré's tutor, and is the winner of the 29th Néstor Luján Historical Novel Award. "It's a very well-written work about a complex period in history," says Maria Carme Roca, a member of the award's jury, adding that one of the book's strengths is "how it explores a rarely fictionalized historical moment, transforming the lack of documentation into a freedom to create stories."