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The health of literature has to take into account many aspects, and one of them is the ability for new authors to publish, and even more so for their first works to be favored by readers.

There are many new authors who have been publishing in recent years, and publishers are attentive to the proposals they receive, as has been seen lately with cases like those Terres mortes by Núria Bendicho Giró, the Aioua by Roser Cabré-Verdiell, Nicolau by Antoni Veciana or Divorce and adventure by Leticia Asenjo, among others.

REGINA RODRÍGUEZ SIRVENT

With a stunning sense of humor, his debut combines dramatic moments with erotic passages, to reflect the evolution of its protagonist

Now, if there is a novel that this past year has become a publishing phenomenon, this is You wear them in the sun (The bell) by Regina Rodríguez Sirvent. The author had been working on this autobiographical novel for years, where a young Rita Racons, searching for her place in the world, unexpectedly lands in the United States to play au pair in the home of a very particular family where it is common, for example, for children – between five and twelve years old! – to argue while having breakfast about Socrates or the economy in Roman times: the writer assures that many passages like those are not fiction. With a stunning sense of humor combined with both dramatic moments and erotic passages, to reflect the evolution of the protagonist, who finds her way in the most unexpected moment of her life. Rodríguez Sirvent came to La Campana after sending an email: they believed in her and little by little word of mouth has turned her into the revelation writer of the year. If Sant Jordi was the fourth best-selling novel, before the summer it was climbing to the top of the lists. It has already been published in fourteen editions, in November Suma de Letras will publish it in Spanish and next year it will be translated, at least, into Portuguese.

JOSEP ORTIZ

This computer scientist’s first novel narrates the invention of the atomic bomb, including moral dilemmas, while also questioning how one’s own life is remembered over time.

Awards are also often a way of entry into the publication of unpublished writers, as has been the case of Andrea Genovart, who won the Anagram Books with his Preferential consumption, a novel that could be described as generational – a label that the author prefers to avoid – due to its attempt to reflect the systemic disenchantment of young people who are beginning to stop being young people, reflected not only in the vicissitudes of her Alba, but also in a style and a language – choosing to move away from the norm and mixing Catalan with Spanish and a little English – that focused intense controversy on the networks. A malaise tinged by a precariousness that goes beyond young people with few job expectations and a vocational horizon that often falters.

ANDREA GENOVART

The winner of the Llibres Anagrama award gives voice to a disenchanted generation due to job insecurity

He also debuted with the Gemma Ventura award, who won the Josep Pla with The law of winter (Destination), which with an intimate and magical air shows us a girl who cannot find her place in a world in crisis while watching over her dying grandfather, the person she has loved the most: on the one hand she remembers their life together and on the other she falls in love with a globetrotter A song at the same time to memory and imagination.

Can you debut two books at the same time? It’s what he’s done Anna Pazos with Kill the nerve (La Segona Perifèria / Random House) Yo Power i desig (Fragments), the first a non-fiction narrative in which he recounts a life of travel around the world trying to find a meaning in existence, while the second develops a brief essay in the collection Raid the Bible from a passage of Scripture. In any case, despite the distance between the two titles due to their different origins and objectives, they share a style and some scenes from one could perfectly be in the other. Pazos begins by explaining his Erasmus in Thessaloniki and ends by portraying his return from New York right at the beginning of the pandemic. In between, a life traveling through Israel, Turkey or a long frustrated sea voyage like her love story, which she shamelessly portrays, while the author searches for herself between glamor and the perception of a defeat that does not come either. .

ANNA PAZOS

In her debut in non-fiction narrative, she shamelessly portrays parts of her life, while she searches for herself between glamor and the perception of a defeat that does not come either.

On another scale, we will also find this search for a life direction in Ofèlia Carbonell’s first novel, Whip and resin (Column). Here Carbonell draws on autofiction and draws a violinist protagonist – she is a cellist – who wonders if she has to give up a musical vocation that involves sacrifice, uncertainty and continuous precariousness or accept a proposal to change her field and be able to continue living in Barcelona. . The author knows what she is talking about because for years she has dedicated herself to writing articles and creating and collaborating with podcasts, platforms that have given her visibility such that, without her having any literary experience, Juliana Canet asked her for a novel that inaugurate the collection Brunzits which wants to make new references known, especially young people.

OFELIA CARBONELL

A violinist must choose between her vocation despite the effort and difficulties it represents or a new path to survive in the city of Barcelona.

Mar García Puig also takes a problem that worries him and his adventures as a starting point to build his first book, The history of invertebrates (La Magrana / Random House). And like her narrator, García Puig – an editor by profession until she entered politics – was the mother of twins and a congressman on the same day, when she entered a spiral of anguish and anxiety. Starting from her personal story, the narrator investigates the madness of women, taking a journey through the history of art, literature, mythology or medicine: of culture.

ANNA MANSO

After more than fifty children’s and young people’s books, she has published a novel in which she talks about the consequences of domestic abuse.

The wound from which Anna Manso wrote A heart of neu (The bell) is not strictly proper, sexual abuse within the family. Of course, Manso is not strictly a debutante, because she has already published more than fifty books, but this was her first novel intended for an adult audience. As it could not be otherwise, however, it also pays tribute to children’s literature, to which it has been dedicated for so many years: the protagonist is a writer of children’s and youth literature and a talking wolf appears, the Impossible, which is the trigger of the story, in addition to implicit and explicit references to The snow queen. Manso deals very delicately, but without avoiding the trademark humor, with the consequences of abuse after twenty years, when a mother gets back in touch with her son after all that time without knowing anything, surrounded by guilt and regrets.

GEMMA VENTURA

Her novel, winner of the Josep Pla award, vindicates memory and imagination at the same time, with an intimate and magical air, based on a girl who watches over her grandfather while she cannot find her place in the world.

Another literary debut, with an antipodean approach, is that of Josep Ortiz, who in The artefact (1984 editions), reviews the invention of the atomic bomb through the memories of a fictional physicist whom he surrounds with real scientists and their moral dilemmas – months before the biopic oppenheimer will sweep the cinemas. At the same time, in a parallel plot, the protagonist returns to Berlin many years later, in a narrative that questions how we remember his own life over the years. The novel won the No Llegiu bookstore award, and was a finalist for the Llibreter.

MAR GARCÍA PUIG

The narrator becomes a mother and a deputy on the same day, and anxiety takes over her: she begins a journey through the history of madness

And there have still been a few more notable debuts, like now that of Maria Canelles with Against nostalgia (Angle), the Mirabilis (Males Herbes) by Eva Espinosa or the first narrative foray by Artur Garcia Fuster, Partint of Zadar (Lleonard Muntaner), an entertaining chronicle about a readership in Croatia with a good gallery of characters who in 2022 won the Pare Colom d’Inca award. New additions that contribute to a more diverse and stronger literature, with room to grow.