Albert Pijuan She has turned 40 in top creative form: she has won the Crexells Prize with her latest novel, The Great Replacement (Ángulo, 2024); has co-written, with Victoria Szpunberg, one of the theatrical sensations of the season, The third escape, which premiered at the TNC, and is currently working on two other stage productions, the adaptation of Permagel, ofEva Baltasarand a story set in a restaurant. This fall, she also just presented In the middle lane (The Second Periphery, 2025), a "unique, foundational, and radical piece of political-road essay," as can be read on the back cover of the volume, or also a funny and extreme textual proposal narrated by Felip Roda, a village eccentric who aspires to get Catalan drivers to reduce their speed for martyrological purposes.

Albert Pijuan, who received the latest Crexells award for the novel The Great Replacement (Ángulo), recognizes that he has "a predilection for daytime novels, especially the short ones, the ones you can read in one go and the time of the book becomes confused with that of reality." In this category, he highlights a story that has recently impressed him, One night, by Domènec Guansé (Tarragona, 1894 - Barcelona, 1978), that Adesiara rescued from oblivion a couple of years ago: had not been reissued since 1935.

"What if I wrote a novel about Nicolas Cage's hair?" he asked himself a few years ago. Albert Pijuan (Calafell, 1985), novelist, playwright and translator. "It seemed to me too absurd a starting point to let him lose." –he continues–. If the ideas survive the passage of time and that obsession persists, I know that it will haunt me until the end of time and then I have no choice but to write it down."