2023 Literary Awards Ceremony
Eduard Roure, Alexandre Planas and Mireia Mejías are the winners of the 2023 Literary Awards organised by the UAB and the Cerdanyola City Council in the respective categories of novel, poetry and short story. The winners received their awards in an event which took place on 11 May at the UAB.
Born in Lleida, author Eduard Roure won the 29th Valldaura-Memorial Pere Calders Novel Award for his novel El metall i els turons. His father was present to receive the award and read a few words his son had written in acceptance of the prize, describing the novel as “a modern fable that aims to talk about old questions that have always obsessed us as readers tied to a human condition”.
The 28th Miquel Martí i Pol Poetry Award went to Alexandre Planas for Projeccions. Planas defended the importance of literary awards because “we continue writing even if we cannot make of it our profession”.
The 14th Caterina Albert Short Story for Young Readers Award went to Mireia Mejías for Apatia. The jury described Mejías' work as a “very well written work with an impecable formality and task explained by a devoted first person who transports us to daily and realist situations”.
The winners of the Literary Awards were announced during the awards ceremony held on Thursday 11 May, at the UAB Theatre Hall. The UAB's Aula de Teatre stable group, under the direction of Ricard Gázquez, offered fragments of the work Amor i informació, a theatre text by Caryl Churchill, who aims to foster reflection on the concepts of love and interpersonal relations in a digital communications era.
To end the event, Cerdanyola del Vallès Mayor Carlos Cordón, and UAB Vice Rector for Innocation, Transfer and Entrepreneurship Rosa Maria Sabastián spoke to thank the winners, participants and members of the jury for their work and also spoke of the importance of these types of awards.