“The journalist wins the most valuable award in Catalan literature with a novel about the Tragic Week: Rosa de cendra (Ash Rose).
The columnist and panellist Pilar Rahola has won the Ramon Llull Prize, the most valuable literary award for Catalan literature, with a novel set during the Tragic Week and the period immediately preceding it (1901-1909). Rosa de cendra (Ash Rose) is another instalment in the saga that began with her previous novel ‘Mariona': it features the descendants of characters from that book but in a different historical setting: the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
Planeta is going to publish the book in Catalan on March and in Spanish at the end of the month. The jury of the prize, worth 60,000 euros, is formed by Anne-Laure Aymeric (in representation of Belfond, the publishing house that publishes the Ramon Llull in French), Carles Casajuana, Pere Gimferrer, Gemma Lienas and Emili Rosales.”
Original News source El Periódico Ocio y Cultura
