Gabriel Janer Manila He has reached the age of 85 with a brand new book fresh off the press, Gallery of Solitudes (New Moll Publishing House, 2025), and several projects in mind. The career of the Mallorcan writer, born in Algaida on November 1, 1940, has been one of the most prolific and recognized of his generation, and he has received awards such as the Josep Pla Prize (in 1971 with The alicorns), the San Juan (The rivers of Babylon, 1984), Charlemagne (The Burned Gardens, 1997) and Ramon Llull (Tigers, 2007).

The literary resumption (the rentrée(if you prefer the Gallicism) has brought new books by Gabriel Janer Manila, Antonia Vicens, and Antoni Vidal Ferrando to the bookstores. The three have in common that they are members of the same generation and that they are from Mallorca, but above all, they are three great authors of contemporary Catalan literature.