2023-12-13 09:15:10
The writer Jordi Puntí won yesterday the 64th Sant Jordi Novel Prize with Confeti, a work that walks between reality and fiction about the Girona musician Xavier Cugat. The award was presented as part of the 73rd Nit de Santa Llúcia-Festa Òmnium de les Lletres Catalanes, which was held at the TNC. Carme Serna received the 26th Mercè Rodoreda Award for stories and narratives for Forgive me for wishing so much; Mireia Calafell, the 65th Carles Riba Prize for poetry for Si una emergency; Lluís Prats, the 61st Josep M. Folch i Torres Prize for novels for boys and girls for Wen I long, and Raquel Casas Agustí, the 50th Joaquim Ruyra Prize for youth fiction for Ferida.
Author of works such as the book of stories This is not America and the non-fiction book Tot Messi, Jordi Puntí won the Sant Jordi with what will be his second novel after Maletes perdudes, published in 2010 The novel is not a biography about Xavier Cugat, but a work that plays with fiction and reality and has Cugat as the protagonist. The author creates a narrator who accompanies Cugat and helps him make the “fabulation of life” a reality. From New York to Hollywood, from Havana to the Ritz hotel in Barcelona, the reader will be able to accompany the two characters throughout a “turbulent and fanciful” century.
The jury highlighted that it is “an exuberant, detailed and very well-documented and fabled work”, which “recreates an era and an atmosphere that is associated with the world of show business”.
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