Mercromina, the first novel by Aida Sunyol Sánchez (Cardedeu, 1990), has just received the BBVA San Juan award for "a lighthearted and fun comedy", in the words of Pilar Beltran, from Edicions 62, and for "being a choral and urban work, well constructed, written with nerve, rhythm, 2.0 relationships between young characters installed in permanent instability, with a sense of humor, a groundbreaking, casual and iconoclastic vision of current reality". The debut of Aida Sunyol, who has published stories in Cloud and in the feminist erotica collections Sexo Fora Norma and is currently a secondary school biology and geology teacher, she has won out of the hundred works nominated for the award. "I studied science, but I have dedicated myself to law and, for some time now, to teaching," she comments. "Since the COVID-19 pandemic, I have regained my love of writing and started writing short stories and novels. My father says that my multiplicity of interests makes me...