Josep Torrent and Salvador Casas win the Empordà prize

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The writers Josep Torrent and Salvador Casas they have ended the sixth Empordà Award for Novel per I stole the Voynich manuscript, a noir novel set in Girona, Bellcaire d’Empordà and the United States. In the second year that the award is organized by the Consell Marcal del Baix Empordà and the 36 town councils of the region – it was born in La Bisbal -, 56 originals have been received.

Josep Torrent (Bellcaire d’Empordà, 1956) and Salvador Casas (Santa Coloma de Farners, 1953) take over from last year’s winner, the Guixolen writer Pilar Francèsfor a novel written by hand about the theft of a manuscript to find the solution to hereditary pancreatic cancer.

“It is a long novel, but there is no straw, the action is fast-paced at all times”, say the two authors.

The award, which was presented on Friday in Santa Cristina d’Aro and has the collaboration of Omnium Cultural, is endowed with 7,000 euros and includes publication of the work by Brau Edicions from Emporda.

The trajectory of the award

The Empordà Novel Prize was created years ago by Jordi Imaz, from Bisbal, and the Cultural Area of ​​the Bisbal d’Empordà Town Council, with the aim of encouraging the participation of both emerging talents and Active writers.

In 2021, the Consell Comarcal del Baix Empordà took over from the Bisbal d’Empordà Town Council as organizer with the intention of involving all the town councils in the county to honor the award. Currently, the 36 town councils of the region collaborate.

The professionals who are part of the jury are people related to the world of writing and letters, people who are in charge of bookstores in the region and the winners of previous editions. All have been coordinated by the commissioner of the award, Jordi Imaz.

Pere Gorgoll takes the Roc Boronat

On the other hand, Pere Gorgoll (Amer, 1962) won the XXV Roc Boronat literary prize on Wednesday with The day the world farted like an eagle (Amsterdam Books). it is abouta “hilarious” and “poignant” novel “halfway between Plato’s ‘The Cave’ and Aldous Huxley’s ‘A Happy World’. As explained by the contest, a crazy story is proposed that proposes a review of this world so dependent on social networks and external approval, full of elements that characterize it as much as influencers, naïve poetry and the phrases of self help

“A story between reality and the absurd, where nothing is what it seems, which gives rise to the birth of a new world order”, they said.

The Roc Boronat prize, called by ONCE Catalunya, is endowed with 6,000 euros. Pere Gorgoll’s work will hit bookstores in September.

On the other hand, in the exclusive category for blind or severely visually impaired writers, Pasqual Bernat won in the prose section with the work ‘The Birthday’. The prize is endowed with 900 euros. The protagonist of this story celebrates his sixtieth birthday under the threat of a premonition made by a card reader who a few years ago had announced to him that he would die that day.

ACN / Barcelona

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