"The summers I miss the most are those when there were no external stimuli other than those you sought out," says the writer Pep Prieto, winner of the Prudenci Bertrana Prize for Rosita, which will be published on September 17. Writing it made her think a lot about those summers that "were colonially boring," when everything was easy and she had to decide what to do if she wanted to have a modicum of activity. Rosita was her grandmother, and the novel, which is autobiographical, deals extensively with those years between 1983 and 1987, from her ages 7 to 11.

Rosita, the novel with which Pep Prieto has just been proclaimed winner of the 58th Prudenci Bertrana Prize —worth 30,000 euros— is a "tender and overwhelming story about the childhood of a boy in Girona in the eighties who looks at life as if it were a film to understand what hides behind fear, the jury, made up of Montse Barderi, Gemma Lienas, Gerard Quintana, Care Santos and Gloria Gasch.