Irene Solà’s last novel, I gave you eyes and looked at the darknesstranslated into Dutch fear Adri Boonhas become the first work in Catalan who hungry the European Bajos Country Literature Prize 2025. This Galardón rewards the best contemporary European novel published in Dutch translation The previous year.
Irene Solà and Adri Boon will recipize the prize El sábado November 8th during the festival Crossing border. Both the author and the translator of the Book Ganador will be released a prize of € 10,000 each in metal.
The Institut Ramon Llull has joined both the translation and the international promotion of the work. Además, Adri Boon participated in the Irene Solà Translators Seminario That the IRL organized the year passed in the residence Faberllull of Olot. This month of September the translator will be attended to a residence at the Autonomous University of Barcelona to translate the work of Montserrat Roig, also with the apoyo of the institute.
The publisher, Uitjerij cosseewhich publishes the second novel of Irene Solà El Año Pasado, has published this month of Junio Ramona Goodbye de Montserrat Roig y Aún has planned to publish two more works of the same author, The time of cherries In October y The purple hourin February of the next year. Además, the publisher will participate in the next edition of the Llull Fellowshipthat will take place during the Book Week in Catalan between the next days 21 and 26 of September.
In his verdicto, the juror of the prize emphasized that it is “ a generous novel in which all life is celebrated and it is damaged to the vez with great style. Miseries and extasis, love and hate, crueld and humor, the angel and the devil: all and all chocan, so that I solo the mue Salvaje, its tense compositions, its absolutely unforgettable women.
The Jurado has been presiding over Niña Weijersand they form the books Annette Breithaupt (Librería van der Velde) and Maartje van tesel (Librería Bijleveld), the journalist and ensayist Jan Postmaand Karol lesmantranslator of the Ganora del Año Pasta (Empusion by Olga Tokarczuk).
The European Literature Prize of the Bajos Counties 2025, which this year bequeathed at the 15th edition, is an initiative of the Dutch Foundation for literaturethe SPUI25 Academic-Cultural Platform, the Weekly Of groene amsterdammer and the bookrería Athenenaeum | Scheltema. The prize will be the Financial Apoyo of the Dutch Foundation for literature.
