With the announcement of some new awards and with a renewed design, Serra d'Or magazine has presented its critics' awards, some honorary awards –beyond a gold lapel saw– that highlight last year's production and that They already reach the 57th edition.
The story of the alphabet (The Advance), by Xènia Dyakonova; El rastre nival (Pagès Editors), by Àngels Marzo; Kennedyana (Folch
In the research categories, Marta Vallverdú won in the humanities section with the work Seixantisme. The Catalan cultural explosion of the 60s (The Avenç), an essay on the flourishing and expansion of the anti-Francoist cultural movements in Catalan-speaking territories. In science, the prize has been for A company with soul. Lavola, 40 years promoting sustainability (Anthesis Lavola), by Pere Colomer and Roma, the story of an international environmental services company that started as a group of friends from Osona who did environmental education and has evolved to spreading knowledge and methodology to solve environmental problems and work for the sustainability of the country and the world. For Irmela Neu, the Catalan language has been for Linguistic Consciousness and National Consciousness in Catalonia during the Renaissance (1833-1891) (Pamsa), a study of the concept of language and nation in the Renaissance made from the Germanic tradition.
With regard to the performing arts, the work by Anja Hilling, Animal negre tristesa, directed by Julio Manrique, has won the award for best theatrical production for the discovery of a new voice in European dramaturgy and for the aesthetic risk of raising individual responsibility. and collective before the preservation of the natural environment. R-A-U-X-A, by Aina Alegre, has won the dance award with an immersive proposal in which dance forms a bridge between tradition and the future, and forcefully articulates the scenic elements (light, sound, space). The opera has been for the community and popular work La gata perduda, by the residents of the Raval and the Liceu, with the involvement of residents and professionals in the performing arts and artistic mediation. The prize for the most interesting contribution has gone to the Teatre Micalet company for its trajectory of more than 25 years of productions in Catalan in Valencia.
In children's and youth literature, the children's award went to Naïm (Piscina un Petit Oceà), with text by Joan Rioné (Naïm Batruni) and illustration by Alba Domingo. The youth prize was won by Josep Pedrals' El joc del penjat (Animallibres), and in knowledge it was won by Ppprrrriiit. A book to create and experiment with sounds (Zahorí), by Cristina Cubells and Joana Casals. A new comics award, now for youth, has also been awarded to Women of the Mountain (Pol·len Edicions), by Federica Ravera and Martina Manyà.
To close the event, the magazine Serra d'Or has made a special mention to Josep Vallverdú, in recognition of his important task as an author of children's and youth literature.
The event was held at the Espai Endesa in Barcelona and was attended by the president of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Pere Aragonès; from Father Abbot Manel Gasch; by Núria Mañé, Director of Publications of the Abbey of Montserrat; and the head of the editorial board of Serra d'Or magazine, Francesc-Marc Álvaro, who has presented the redesign of the publication, with new content, with which it wants to be a new stage, without losing a spirit "that is maintained since 1959", he said.
For the journalist, it is about "incorporating unpublished material and new firms, with the desire to return to being a central agora of Catalan culture, where to reflect and debate with a national, European and global perspective at the same time". Álvaro has also lamented the situation of the magazine L'Avenç, and has expressed his hope that it can be resolved. The April issue, for example, is dedicated to artificial intelligence, and includes a section dedicated to comics, "which has top-level creators in Catalonia", he concluded.
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