John Boyne (Dublin, 1971) returns to Catalan bookstores with his most attractive character, with permission fromThe boy in the striped pajamas: Maurice Swift, an aspiring writer as seductive as he is ruthless. A stairway to heaven, Published in English in 2018, it portrays the daring path to literary glory of this Tom Ripley, from Nazi Germany to the present day, in a kind of treatise on ambition and morality in artistic circles. The publication of the novel (in Catalan by Empúries with a translation by Jordi Cussà and Anna Camps; and in Spanish by Salamandra) has coincided with a new controversy over Boyne that has caused the Irish writer to cancel his promotional trip, for which he responds to the ARA via email. The organizers of the LGBTIQ+ Polari literary prize have suspended this year's edition due to the boycott by some authors for having preselected the novel. Earth, from Boyne. They criticize the author for declaring himself a "fellow TERF" (an acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist) and a defender of JK Rowling. The author sees it as a new attempt to cancel it..