The music Natalia Laguens has won this Monday the literary prize La Central 25, in the modality of Spanish, with the stories of Plums, while the Lleida Jordi Pàmias has been distinguished in the modality of Catalan by the essay Unes altres Bacants, si us plau!
The Barcelona bookstore La Central, on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, has announced this award, endowed with 4,000 euros for each modality and which includes the publication of the winning work, which will be distributed exclusively in the establishments of the group for a year, as reported on Monday.
Stories by Natalia Laguens
'Plums' stands out for its "close and original voice, its sense of humor, the combination between its literary ambition and effective language"
The jury has considered that Plums, presented under the pseudonym of Xu, stands out for its "close and original voice, its sense of humor, the combination between its literary ambition and effective language" as well as for the "variation of themes and voices that also maintain a coherent structure that reinforces cohesion as a book".
The jury understands that the seven stories that compose it "flow in a fresh and cheerful way, giving the whole a musicality, through which the author includes, with a brilliant subtlety, an evening critical of immediacy, the accelerated world in which we live".
Essay by Jordi Pàmias
'Unes altres Bacants, si us plau!' is "vindicates the anti-system side that hides behind what we call Dionysian"
Unes altres Bacants, si us plau! is a work that starts from The Bacchae of Euripides, "an entertaining and rigorous essay that vindicates the anti-system side that hides behind what we call Dionysian".
Natalia Laguens
Graduated in Psychology from the Complutense University of Madrid, in Composition of Contemporary Music at the Tai School and with a master's degree from the Higher School of Cinema and Audiovisuals of Catalonia (Escac), Natalia Laguens has participated in several courses, seminars and workshops related to musical composition in institutions such as NYU or NFTS.
Jordi Pàmias
Born in Lleida in 1972, Jordi Pàmias is a professor of Greek language and literature at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and has focused his research on Greek myth, its theoretical aspects and its reception". Since 2010 he is a member of the editorial board of the Collection of Greek and Latin texts of the Fundació Bernat Metge and Raymond Weil Prize 2014 for the edition of Eratosthène de Cyrène. Casastérismes, from the Collection Budé-Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2013.
The juries
The jury of the Spanish language modality, formed by the editorial director of Acantilado, Sandra Ollo; the editorial director of Anagrama, Silvia Sesé; the publisher of Blackie Books, Pau Ferrandis; the editorial director of Libros del Asteroide, Luis Solano; the president of Gianciacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Carlo Feltrinelli; the editorial director of Sexto Piso, Santiago Tobón, and Neus Botellé, Luis de Dios and Ànnia Paredes, from the La Central team, have chosen Laguens' work from among the 1,257 manuscripts received.
The jury of the Catalan modality, formed by the editor of Anagrama Isabel Obiols; Arcàdia editors Montse Ingla and Antoni Munné; Galaxia Gutenberg editor Monika Zgustová; the editor of Edicions del Periscopi, Aniol Rafel; the editor of Raig Verd, Laura Huerga, and Joan Flores, Marta Ramoneda and Laura Sala, from the La Central team, has chosen the original by Jordi Pàmias from among the 194 presented.
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