Sant Jordi

Roser Vernet i Anguera was born in El Priorat and, like so many others, she moved away from the region for a time and lived abroad. She moved back home definitively at the start of the 21^st century. She then founded the Quim Soler Centre, linking literature and wine, in order to disseminate the writer's legacy and link literature with the El Priorat region. She is addicted to trains, great meals at table and the words and deeds that create and make possible decent ways of inhabiting the places we live in. Her book Lo mig del món [Half the World] won the 2023 City of Barcelona Prize for literature in Catalan.

Mar García Puig is an English Philology graduate and has a Masters in Linguistics. An editor by profession, she has published articles in media outlets such as the La Vanguardia and El Periódico newspapers, elDiario.es, Público and CTXT. She has contributed to the books LGTBI, Neorrancios: sobre los peligros de la nostalgia [Neo-rancid: on the dangers of nostalgia] and Más que visibles [More than Visible]. She was a Member of Parliament for the Catalan Government, where she was spokesperson for the Culture Committee. Her first book, La història dels vertebrats, won the 2023 City of Barcelona Essay Prize.

In collaboration with: Club Editor and Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial