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Ã’mnium Prize
The Òmnium Prize for Best Novel of the Year is a literary prize awarded by the Òmnium Cultural association for a Catalan-language novel. It has a €20,000 award for the author and a €5,000 award for the publisher of the work. It is the best-funded prize for a published Catalan-language novel. History The prize was created in 2017 with a €20,000 direct donation for the author and a marketing campaign valued at €5,000, with the intention of annually recognizing the best Catalan-language novel and make it known to the public. It is similar to the Prix Goncourt for French literature. In the first edition, a selection committee composed of the editor of the ''Núvol'' online newspaper, Bernat Puigtobella, bookseller Olga Federico, and librarian Carme Fenoll nominated 16 novels published in 2017. Afterwards, a jury of five independent members (Harvard University professor Maria Dasca, University of Barcelona professor emeritus Rosa Cabré, University of Valencia professor Car ...
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Ã’mnium Cultural
Òmnium Cultural () is a Spanish association based in Barcelona, Catalonia. It was originally created in the 1960s to promote the Catalan language and spread Catalan culture. Over the years it has increased its involvement in broader political issues; in 2012 it committed itself to Catalan independence, specifically demanding the right of self-determination for Catalonia. Jordi Cuixart, then president of Òmnium, was jailed for his involvement in protests preceding the 2017 Catalan independence referendum, 2017, Catalan independence referendum. Currently Òmnium claims more than 190,000 members organised in 52 regional offices besides the headquarters in Barcelona. History Òmnium Cultural was created on 11 July 1961 in the context of Francoist Spain when the institutional use of Catalan was forbidden. In 1963 the Francoist authorities closed down the association. Òmnium had to continue to exist as a clandestine association between 1963–1967. In 1967, after a long legal cas ...
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Editorial Anagrama
Anagrama is a Spanish publisher founded in 1969 by Jorge Herralde, later sold to the Italian publisher Feltrinelli. History Anagrama was founded in 1969 by Jorge Herralde. In 2010, it was sold to the Italian publisher Feltrinelli. A Catalan language series, ''Llibres anagrama'', was created in 2014. In January 2017 the publisher was acquired by the Feltrinelli Group, with Jorge Herralde appointed chairman of the board, while and Silvia Sesé took over as editorial director of Anagrama. In November 2021, La Bella Varsovia, a poetry publisher headed by poet Elena Medel, became an imprint of Anagrama, with Medel continuing as director. Anagrama has published thousands of titles since 1969. Description Anagrama publishes around 100 books annually, including fiction, non-fiction, and a paperback series. Its most important series is ''Narrativas hispánicas'', consisting of works by many of the most important Spanish-language writers of the modern era, including Sergio P ...
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Raül Garrigasait
Raül Garrigasait i Colomés ( Solsona, 1979) is a Catalan translator from Greek and German to Catalan language. His first book was an essay on classical erudition. His first novel, ''Els estranys'', won the 2017 Catalan booksellers' Prize and the 2017 Òmnium Prize. He has translated works by Plato, Goethe, Alexandros Papadiamandis, Joseph Roth, and Peter Sloterdijk, among other writers, and presently heads La Casa dels Clàssics (House of the Classics), a project initiated by the Bernat Metge Collection with the aim of promoting the creation, thought and dissemination of universal classics in the Catalan language. Works * ''La tendra mà de cada arrel'' (The tender hand of each root) (Viena edicions, 2005) * ''El gos cosmopolita i dos espècimens més'' (The Cosmopolitan Dog and Two Other Specimens] (A Contravent, 2012) * ''Els estranys'' (Edicions de 1984, 2017) translated to English by Tiago Miller and published by Fum d'Estampa (2021) * 2018: ''El fugitiu que no se'n va'' ...
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Marta Orriols
Marta Orriols (Sabadell, 1975) is a Catalan writer from Spain. She studied cinematographic scriptwriting at the Bande à Part film school in Barcelona and creative writing at the Ateneu Barcelonès. She received the 2018 Òmnium Prize for best Catalan-language novel by Òmnium Cultural, the No Llegiu Prize, and the Illa dels Llibres Prize for Best Novel of 2018. Her novel has been translated to several languages, including English (''Learning to talk to plants'', published by Pushkin Press) and French. She lives in Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ... with her two sons. References Marta Orriols at LletrA, Catalan Literature Online (Open University of Catalonia) {{Authority control Writers from Barcelona Writers from Catalonia 1975 births Living ...
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Irene Solà
Irene Solà Sáez (born 17 August 1990) is a Spanish writer and artist. She has exhibited her work at the CCCB in Barcelona and the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Her first book of poems, ''Bèstia'' won the 2012 Amadeu Oller Prize and her novel ''Els dics'', the 2017 Documenta Prize. She has a degree in fine arts from the University of Barcelona and a master's in literature, film and visual culture from the University of Sussex. Her first book of poems, ''Bèstia'' (Galerada, 2012), was awarded the Amadeu Oller Poetry Prize and has been translated into English (as ''Beast'', Shearsman Books, 2017). Her first novel, ''Els dics'' (The Dams, L'Altra Editorial, 2018), won the Documenta prize and was awarded a grant for literary creation by the Catalan Department of Culture. In 2018, she was a resident writer at the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center of George Mason University (Virginia, United States) and in late 2019 she was selected to participate in the Art Omi: Writers ...
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Edicions De 1984
Edicions de 1984 is an independent publishing house in Catalonia specialized in up-market literature which was founded in 1984 by Josep Cots as an homage to George Orwell. Josep Cots, the current director and editor-in-chief, and his team have been building up the company’s catalogue which includes some of the most important authors of all times. The catalogue, which has around 450 active titles, includes translations of all genres (novel, poetry, theatre and essay) and works by catalan authors. Edicions de 1984 publishes around twenty-five titles per year and it follows an author policy. Among its authors, the catalogue includes foreign authors like Claudio Magris, Saunders, Strout, Jennifer Egan, Davis, Whitman, Chalandon, Binet, Fallada, Döblin, Balzac, Hugo, Grimaldi, Grimal, Giono, Gide, Buzzati, Berger, Leroy, Somerset Maugham William Somerset Maugham ( ; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born ...
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Boulder (novel)
''Boulder'' is a 2020 novel by Catalan author Eva Baltasar. In 2023, the English translation by Julia Sanches was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Plot Boulder is the nickname given to a woman by another woman called Samsa while the former works as a cook on a merchant ship. The novel follows the eponymous main character as the couple moves to Reykjavík, Samsa has a child, and Boulder navigates how the resulting changes in their relationship clash with her desire for freedom. Reception Critical reception The novel was well received by critics. Greg Mania, in a review for The New York Times Book Review praised its depiction of intimacy, commenting "the language of desire never stops vibrating off the page". He mentions that in the way motherhood changes the "delightfully complex protagonist lies the source of this novel’s magnetism." Patrick Graney, in a review for The Times, compared it to Baltasar's previous novel ''Permafrost'' saying that Boulder's " ...
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Eva Baltasar
Eva Baltasar (born August 26, 1978) is a Spanish poet and writer. She has a bachelor's degree in Pedagogy from the University of Barcelona. She has published ten books of poetry, which have earned numerous awards including the 2008 Miquel de Palol, the 2010 Benet Ribas, the 2015 Gabriel Ferrater, and the 2020 Ã’mnium Prize. Baltasar's first novel, ''Permafrost'', received the 2018 Catalan Booksellers Award and it has sold the translation rights to six languages. Literary work Novel * ''Permagel''. Club Editor, 2018 *''Boulder''. Club Editor, 2020 *''Mamut''. Club Editor, 2022 Translated Work * ''Permafrost''. Penguin Random House Penguin Random House Limited is a British-American multinational corporation, multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, with the merger of Penguin Books and Random House. Penguin Books was or ..., 2018 (Spanish) * ''Permafrost''. Nottetempo, 2019 (Italian) * ''Boulder''. Penguin Random House, 2 ...
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Jordi Cussà
Jordi Cussà (Berga, 18 January 1961 – 11 July 2021) was a Spanish Catalan-language writer. Biography In the late 1970s he co-founded the Anònim Theatre foundation in his hometown, Berga, collaborating as a playwright and actor. His first novel ''Cavalls salvatges'' (2000) reflects his youth addiction to drugs. The novel was very well received by both public and critics in Catalan cultural scene, 'because of its innovation in both its linguistic and stylistic solutions and its themes'. Afterwards he published other books like ''La Serp'' (2001), ''El Ciclop'' (2017), ''A Reveure, Espanya'' (2010) or ''El trobador Cuadeferro'' (2016). His last book was published in 2021: ''El primer emperador i la reina Lluna''. Member of the Association of Catalan Language Writers, Cussà also worked as a professional translator to Catalan. He published translations from authors like Chuck Palahniuk, John Boyne, Patricia Highsmith and Truman Capote Truman Garcia Capote ( ; born Truman ...
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Joan-Lluís Lluís
Joan-Lluís Lluís (Perpignan, 1963) is a Catalan writer. His works include five novels and a collection of essays entitled ''Conversa amb el meu gos sobre França i els francesos'' (Conversation with my Dog about France and the French, 2002). This last work, which Lluís himself describes as a pamphlet, focuses on the precarious linguistic situation of the Catalans under French administration. He is co-author, with musician Pascal Comelade, of a manifesto published in 1998 by linguistic and cultural activists from Northern Catalonia Northern Catalonia, North Catalonia or French Catalonia is the Catalan language, Catalan-speaking and cultural territory ceded to France by Spain through the signing of the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 in exchange for France's effective renu .... His 2004 novel ''El dia de l'ós'' (The Day of the Bear) won the prestigious Joan Creixells Prize, and his novel ''Jo soc aquell que va matar Franco'' (I'm the one who killed Franco) received the San ...
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Sebastià Alzamora I Martín
Sebastià Alzamora i Martín (born March 6, 1972, in Llucmajor, Majorca) is a writer, literary critic and cultural manager from Majorca. He is a self-proclaimed member of the poetic group called Imparables ("Unstoppables"). Biography Sebastià has a degree in Catalan language, Catalan philology from Universitat de les Illes Balears, and became known with collection of poems ''Rafel'' (1994; Premi Salvador Espriu). He has also published ''Apoteosi del cercle'' (1997), ''Mula morta'' (2001) and ''El benestar'' (2003). As a writer, he has published ''L'extinció'' (1999), ''Sara i Jeremies'' (2002), ''La pell i la princesa'' (2005), ''Nit de l'ànima'' (2007), ''Miracle a Llucmajor'' (2010) and ''Dos amics de vint anys'' (2013). He is the author of the essay about Gabriel Janer Manila ''L'escriptura del Foc'' (1998). He also participated in ''Imparables, Una antologia'' (2004) and he has published with Hèctor Bofill and Manuel Forcano ''Dogmàtica Imparable'' (2005). His novel ''C ...
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Imma Monsó
Imma Monsó (born in 1959 in Lleida, Catalonia) is a Spanish fiction writer. Monsó is known mainly for her humorous and poignant novels and for blending an absurdist wit with a profound tenderness for her very singular characters. Monso is graduated from University of Barcelona, Spain and University of Caen Normandy in France. She is a high school teacher and writes for the main Spanish and Catalan newspapers like ''El País'' and ''La Vanguardia''. All her literary works has been translated into Spanish, and most of them to several languages. She has received numerous awards for her literary works. Published works Novels *''No se sap mai (One never knows)'' (1996) *''Com unes vacances (Like a holiday)'' (1998) *''Tot un caràcter (A total character)'' (2000) *''Un home de paraula (A man with a word)'' (2006) *''La dona veloç'' (2012) *''La mestra i la Bèstia'' (2023) Short story and essay collections *Marxem, papà, aquí no ens hi volen. (Go on, daddy, we’re not welcome h ...
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