Now that the year-end book lists seem to be over (summary: we're against lists, but if we're included, we like them more), I'd like to draw attention to two books that I think are important: Between two dark, by Antoni Vidal Ferrando (Ediciones Proa) and Everything is waves, by Josep Piera (Editorial Asuntos). One in verse and the other in prose, one author from Mallorca and the other from Valencia, one born in 1945 and the other in 1947, two essential authors of contemporary Catalan literature.

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.