The poet Laia Llobera (Barcelona, ​​1983) has immersed herself in 12th-century Occitania in every sense in Saur (Proa), winner of the 2025 Miquel de Palol Poetry Prize. Llobera, who holds a doctorate in Catalan language and literature and degrees in translation and interpreting and in religious studies, not only rediscovers the voice of troubadours but also explores questions about the earth, in its most sensual and ancestral sense, death, origins, death, origins, preceded.

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.