Àlex Brendemühl, who a few weeks ago won the Cristal Globe for best performance at the Karlovy Vary Festival for the movie When a river becomes the seaPere Vilà Barceló is one of the most award-winning Catalan actors of his generation, with three Gaudí Awards, a Sant Jordi Award, and the Silver Bisnaga at the Málaga Film Festival. The novel he recommends is also one of the most award-winning in recent Catalan literature: Boulder, ofEva Baltasar, published in March 2020 and winner of the Òmnium Novel Prize and finalist for the Les Inrockuptibles Prize 2022 and of the Booker International 2023, considering it's the first work in Catalan to achieve this last milestone.