It was a surprise that Irene Rubio Martínez (Sallent, 1991) didn't submit her entry for the Documenta Prize. She hesitated until the very last minute, and a friend waited outside Documenta on September 19th to make sure she didn't back out. She was right to do so, because the jury decided to award her first novel. You will be the valleywhich presents a dystopian and devastated scenario with several female voices. "The literary ambition, a world of its own that is both dark and luminous, powerful narrative voices, and the imaginative, unsettling, and deeply believable construction of a world in which nature and city are violently confronted, make the winning work an original and vibrant proposal that looks directly at the present and speaks, among many other things, of patriarchy," says the jury made up of Albert Forns, Roser Cabré-Verdiell, Pau Vidal, Èric del Arco, and Eugenia Broggi.