Elisenda Solsona, Roger Coch and Jordi Masó are three acclaimed and undisputed up-and-coming leaders of the recent boom in Catalan-language fantastic literature. All of them have been invited this year to talk about three ambitious works, one of which recently won the Llibreter Award, and share an obsession for looking back to explain the past and even the origins of the fantastic codes that they link to poetics, emotion and reflections that border on the philosophical. In a nutshell, literature at its finest. Elisenda Solsona, who dazzled everyone in 2019 with the stories in her award-winning Satèl·lits [Satellites], is back this autumn with Mammalia, a futuristic thriller about fertility, family relationships and memory that has been presented as the Catalan counterpart to Mariana Enríquez, Samanta Schweblin and Mónica Ojeda. Steeped in fantasy, Roger Coch of Udzu and L’Esfera [The Sphere] (with Muriel Villanueva) has also recently presented Les terres dels cossos que es desfan [The Lands of Disintegrating Bodies], a journey that explores life and life cycles in a world of midwives, goddesses and oracles where martyrs are exchanged for newborns. Guided by moderator Laura Tomàs of Andorra, they will be joined by Jordi Masó and his Xacona [Chaconne], the superb 2024 Llibreter Award-winning novel that uses the musical movement of the same name to explore the narrative possibilities of a widow who, following the burial of her husband, finds a compromising letter. Solsona, Coch and Masó, then: readers will return to them again and again, and always find something new.

Guests:

Elisenda Solsona

Roger Coch

Jordi Masó

Moderator:

Laura Tomàs