Some remember him as the monitor who, during the 1996 colonies of the Association of Young Writers in Catalan Language (AJELC), held at Colonia de Sant Pere, ran down the hall shouting "I have the mission to save the Catalan language". Thirty years later, the Mallorcan Carles Rebassa (Palma, 1977) said more or less the same thing in a very different context. It was when he collected the Sant Jordi prize for the 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."