2024-09-06 16:31:14
The end of the holidays begins to be seen and, with the arrival of September, the publishing industry picks up the pace. The bookstores are full of novelties with the latest bets of the publishers with a semester loaded with the best reading proposals.
Death surprises him in 2022 when the text, finished, is stored in a box. It’s about in the first person (Empúries), a collection of short stories that will see the light of day as the posthumous work of Vicenç Pagès and it will be one of the most attractive proposals of the back to school. With elements of humor that distinguish his writing, and a depth of research, the origin of the author from Figueres has left a deep mark on Catalan literature.
Among the writers from Girona, a journalist from Vilafant Published by Anna Punsí Lladó A love that is always there (Columna), a great collection of real stories told from the love and footprint he left behind. And, without leaving Empordà, the writer Figueres Octavi Dalmau presented Aquelarre in Llers, 1647. The order of the witch (Cap de Ras), already in the libraries and will be presented on September 21 in the library of Figueres.
Literary Awards of Girona
In accordance with the presentation of the Girona Literary Awards, the Fundació Prudenci Bertrana and Edicions 62 will publish in mid-September the works that won the new prize, among them. Pilar Rahola’s new book entitled Cornelius, almogáver (Columna), Prudenci Bertrana prize for the noveland L’estranger a casa (Proa), by Josep-Anton Fernàndez, winner of the Miquel de Palol Poetry Prize.
For the month of October, the back to school will an the publication of Mountain treasure (Book), by the author Besalune Martí Gironell.
However, the most talked about book will be Tiger Sadness (Anagram), by French author Neige Sinno. The winner of the Women’s Prize 2023, it analyzes accurately and without compromises the difficult subject and the suffering of the relationship, which the author approaches from his experience of assault. Sinno has shaken the French publishing world since it was published and now it will arrive in bookstores all over Catalonia.
Among the most anticipated returns of the new season is that of Manuel Villas. the author ofOrdesa will come out The best book in the world (Nature). The Aragonese writer writes about the weakness of the ego, comparisons with others and irrational illness in a personal novel about the writer’s weakness.
Proa celebrates math Truman Capote on the 40th anniversary of his death with new publications dBreakfast at Tiffany’s i In San Fredatwo classics of American literature that are now back on the novelty shelves of bookstores.
international literature
As for international literature, it is important The portfolio (Duomo Ediciones), by Francesca Giannone, winner of the Bancarella Prize awarded by independent Italian auctioneers. The book, one of the most read in Italy in 2023 with more than 450,000 copies sold, will describe the author’s visit to Catalonia next September 9.
Llibres de l’Asteroide, a Catalan publishing house based in Barcelona, The war of youth and Spain. The text relates the childhood in Mallorca during the civil war of the writer Frabrizia Ramondino.
Of my life (Galaxia Gutenberg), a memoir written by the Mallorcan painter Miquel Barceló, covers the important stages of his life: from his native Mallorca to the years in Paris, the capital of art, to long periods in Mali, the Dogón language, which he had to leave because of the war. With a special focus on childhood, memories are also walking through the Mediterranean, colors, fruits, fish, faces, sand and caves.
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