Some remember him as the counselor who, during the 1996 summer camp organized by the Association of Young Writers in the Catalan Language (AJELC) at the Sant Pere Colony, ran down the hallway shouting, "I have a mission to save the Catalan language." Thirty years later, Carles Rebassa (Palma, 1977), from Mallorca, said more or less the same thing in a very different context. It was when he received the Sant Jordi Prize for his novel Prometheus of a thousand ways, which will go on sale on March 24th. "We must have legislation that makes Catalan essential for living in the Catalan Countries," he said.

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."