The Mallorcan playwright and writer Josep R. Cerdà has won the first Àngel Guimerà prize for dramatic literature with his work The second lineThe award was presented during the Night of Catalan Letters, recently held in the Oval Room of the MNAC in Barcelona. Created this year and endowed with 15,000 euros, the prize has become the highest-paid dramatic award in Spain and aims to strengthen the presence of theater within the Catalan literary scene.

Carles Rebassa, from Mallorca, used his acceptance speech for the Sant Jordi novel prize to focus on Palma, the city where his novel takes place. Prometheus in a thousand waysThe writer spoke with a tone of affection and concern about a city that, in his opinion, is undergoing a profound transformation. "It's a portrait of a city I love very much because it's my city," he said, but at the same time he sees it as "colonized, destroyed, devastated, and sunk."