In statements to a national newspaper, Pilar Rahola, winner of the 2024 Prudenci Bertrana awardHe spoke with solid arguments about his novel Cornelius, the AlmogavarRahola, who is more of a politician and opinion-maker than a writer of considerable renown, claimed that she had written this book to glorify the Almogavars, those assault troops (sturmtruppen(in German of the second and third Reich), an army of mercenaries that contributed effectively to the expansion of the Catalans in the Mediterranean, active above all during the 13th and 14th centuries.