2022 edebé Young-Adult literature. Catalan Authors

YOUNG-ADULT LITERATURE

CATALAN WRITERS

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ESCRIPTORS EN LLENGUA CATALANA I LA SEVA OBRA JUVENIL Autors/obres representades per Edebé WRITERS IN CATALAN LANGUAGE AND THEIR Y/A WORKS Authors/works represented by Edebé

CATALAN WRITERS | YOUNG-ADULT LITERATURE

PASQUAL ALAPONT

> The Black Sheep > The Antarctic Ocean’s Chevalier

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ÀNGEL BURGAS

> Kamal and the Alphabetists > Lucas Bilbo, Actor

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MAITE CARRANZA

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JORDI CERVERA

> Death at Six Twenty Five

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TONI COTET I MASIÀ

> What’s After High School?

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DOLORS GARCIA I CORNELLÀ

> Mafalda’s Nocturn

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JOAN MANUEL GISBERT

> Yol, Son of Two Worlds

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PAU JOAN HERNÁNDEZ

> The Panic Crew > When You Don’t Pass Away

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GABRIEL JANER MANILA

> They Have Burned the Sea

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GEMMA LIENAS

> Not in a Thousand Years

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Poisoned Words War of Witches Sisters, Dogs, Geeks and other Specimens Paths of Freedom

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ANDREU MARTÍN

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Whapps. Look at Me in the Eye Three Wishes Crazy Ideas Paradise’s Owners

ISAAC PALMIOLA

> Ecoterrorists

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VÍCTOR PANICELLO

> Influencer. A Year in Wonderland

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RAIMON PORTELL

> A Ballad of the North Sea

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GISELA POU

> Midnight Girl

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NÚRIA PRADAS

> Counting Clouds

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ALICIA ROCA

> Cats Do Not Eat With a Fork

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RICARD RUIZ GARZÓN

> Mangata

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CARE SANTOS

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CATALAN WRITERS | YOUNG-ADULT LITERATURE

L’ovella negra The Black Sheep

© F. Martí

PASQUAL

ALAPONT Pasqual Alapont was born in Catarroja (Valencia) in 1963. After graduating in Geography and History at the University of Valencia, he began to work for

It isn't easy to rebel against long-standing family traditions.

Nevertheless, that is what seventeen-year-old Hermògenes does when he decides to become an archaeologist instead of going into the medical profession. He decides to study Archaeologism and to work part-time as a baby-sitter when his parents' stop giving him financial support. His determination to pursue his goal, as well as the relationship to the child he babysits and his mother are the foundations for Hermògenes' self-assertion and self-realisation.

The author relates the protagonist's process of emancipation and reaching maturity with humour and ease. His concise rendering of character is excellent and reveals deep psychological insight.

different companies and publishing houses as a translator, linguistic reviewer and editor. At the same time, he began to write as a novelist, script writer and playwright. He has published

2001 EDEBÉ AWARD

over a dozen works, some of which have been acknowledged with important prizes including the White Ravens, Serra d’ Or and edebé literature award.

* 2002 WHITE RAVENS * SERRA D’OR CRITICS AWARD

Translated or published in Spanish, Galician and Basque ISBN: 978-84-236-5766-7 PAGES: 144 BINDING: Paperback with flaps COVER PRICE: 10,50 €

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El cavaller de l’oceà Antàrtic The Antarctic Ocean’s Chevalier This story begins when Daniel, at the age of thirteen, loses his sense of reality and, like a modern Don Quixot, decides to imitate his fantasy heroes and confront injustice. Of course, the misunderstandings at school and in the neighbourhood create situations that provoke laughter, and so... the root of the problem runs deeper.

Daniel's mum had died in a car accident, and his son, who was travelling with her, was left with the scars of two wounds: one was the scar from a very visible cremation of the left side of his leg; the other was in his memory.

Apparently, Daniel had erased the tragic events, but only in appearance.

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CATALAN WRITERS | YOUNG-ADULT LITERATURE

Kamal i els alfabetistes ÀNGEL

BURGAS Àngel Burgas (Figueres, 1965) is a fiction writer for young-adult and adults. In his stories he creates many characters interacting between them in plots that go deeply into social issues, identity and, often, with loads of good humor. Berlin is one of the cities that often appear in his books because of his stay of that city for two years when he was student. Among all of his

Kamal and the Alphabetists A hilariously funny adventure where Germans, Turks, squatters, monsters, punks, visionaries, Nazis, angels, ghosts, obsessive behavior youth, Bollywood dancers and the ancient Ottoman alphabet play a major role in this story set in Berlin. Set amidst a mosaic of cultures and a collage of different life-styles, the frenetic rhythm, sprinkled with humor, irony and laughs, allows us to live through amazing transformations, apartment trespassing, wild chases and incredible theories about the end of the world.

Thirteen-year-old Kamal, born in Germany of Turkish origin, will tell us the incredible adventure he lived during his first year at Secondary School, when everything around him went topsy-turvy. Saddled with a huge responsibility of having to save the world, Kamal will be helped by the outmost incredible characters which will end up becoming a great team and achieving the best of each.

young-adult novels the following stand up: El Anticlub, El club de la canasta, Segundo Trimestre, Operación Kioto, El ocupante, Kalimán en Jericó or Noel te busca. His work has been awarded with some prizes, like the Folch i Torres award, the Joaquim Ruyra, Serra d’Or or Protagonista Jove. He combines literature with teaching and literary critics in blogs and reviews and he’s member of the redaction of Faristol review (specialized on children and young-adult literature).

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L’actor Lucas Bilbo Lucas Bilbo, Actor When a teenage girl disappears, neither her family nor her friends nor the police know where to look for her. Only Lucas Bilbo, her school theatre colleague, has information that he has promised to keep as a secret.

Which is the secret mystery hidden behind this disappearance? What relation is there with someone who years later will become a very wellknown actor?

"Nobody realized Ruth had disappeared when it happened.

That morning she had gone to school as usual but in the afternoon she did not show up at the drama rehearsal. Next day she did not go to school. Soon her schoolmates realized that something strange was going on, teachers were nervous and later the police showed in.

Rumor spread out in a few seconds: "Ruth has disappeared! Police is interrogating her friends, one by one, at the Principal’s office!"

Only the main character, Lucas, will realize that that secret Ruth told him just a few hours previously has to be the key to finding her, but he had made a promise and he must keep it.

His acting strategies will have to be put into practice and thanks to them he’ll realize that sometimes non-verbal communication is as important as the words we say.

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CATALAN WRITERS | YOUNG-ADULT LITERATURE

Paraules emmetzinades Poisoned Words

MAITE

CARRANZA

Poisoned Words is the story of an action-packed day against the clock. It is told from the point of view of three characters, all close to Barbara Molina, a girl who mysteriously disappeared at the age of fifteen after a violent incident. An enigma that neither her family has managed to solve in four years. Now, a phone call reopens the case offering new keys for its interpretations. Sometimes the truth is hidden in darkness and it is only lit up when a window is suddenly opened. It is a story of lies, secrets, deceits and false appearances.

Maite Carranza (Barcelona, 1958). With a degree in Anthropology and after a period of teaching, she devotes her career on scriptwriting (especially for TV) and literature. Her work in the field of literature started in 1987 when she won the Critics Prize Serra d’Or.

2010 EDEBÉ AWARD

2011 SPANISH NATIONAL AWARD

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Since then she has published more than 50 books and has achieved important Literary awards, such as the Critics Prize Serra d’Or, the edebé literature award, the Spanish National award, the Cervantes Chico award, White Ravens,

* 2011 “SERRA D’OR” CRITICS AWARD * 2011 WHITE RAVENS * 2013 BANCO DEL LIBRO * 2014 FADA AWARD

among others.

Her work, specially her huge international success, La Guerra de les Bruixes (Witches’ War) followed by Paraules emmetzinades (Poisoned words) has been translated to more than 30 languages. She combines literature with scriptwriting (especially for TV) and teaching scriptwriting at university.

Maite has two sons and one daughter.

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"A shocking story without concessions, avoiding lurid scenes". La Vanguardia, 2010 "A book written with rage heart but keeping cool head". El Mundo, 2010

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La guerra de les bruixes (trilogy) War of Witches A Mediterranean witches’ story that has charmed readers worldwide.

Right from the beginning of time, the clans of the Omar witches have lived in hiding from the bloodthirsty Odish witches, awaiting the arrival of the one chosen by the prophecy. Now the stars confirm that the moment is nigh. Anaíd, who has lived for her 14 years set apart in a village in a Pyrenees village, is not aware of the secrets that concern the women of her family… Until the mysterious disappearance of her mother, Selene the redhead confronts her with a truth that is as spine chilling as it is incredible and she is forced to travel a long way full of danger and discoveries…

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El clan de la lloba

El desert de gel

La maledicció d’Odi

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A story of witches, nowadays women who keep secrets and share their ancestral magic.

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Germanes, gossos, friquis i altres espècimens Sisters, Dogs, Geeks and Other Specimens Humor, intrigue and love in this frenetic sitcom full of misunderstanding in which nobody is who they really seem. The blonde and perfect Angelica is impersonated by her sister, a specialist in troubles and disasters.

Marina gets involved in an absurd misunderstanding with Patrick, her sister’s Irish boyfriend (too handsome), the dogs of Mrs. Higgins (her hideous landlady), her Sicilian guests (who belongs to mafia) and a lunatic family of radicals animal activists. To make matters worse, C.C., a desperate geek who only wants to live in his virtual world, is continually crossing his path upsetting all his plans.

POLAND

“A crazy comedy where nobody is, who pretends to be”.

Maite Ricard, Tendencias El Mundo 7/12/2017

Julia Prats (Barcelona, 1986) is Maite Carranza’s daughter. She holds a degree in Psychology and she has worked as a photographer and scriptwriting,

Translated or published into Spanish and Polish

and she has also worked in different documentaries. This is her first novel.

AUTHOR: Maite Carranza & Júlia Prats

The seed of this story is Julia’s experience, 16 years ago, in her wild and

ISBN: 978-84-683-3487-5

crazy youth, when she spent a summer in

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Dublin to study English.

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Camins de llibertat Paths of Freedom “Have you ever felt invisible? Have you ever had the horrible impression that the boy you are in love with does not see you?

Have you ever wished to cry when that particular boy talks to you but he does it with the same distance and indifference as if you were any supermarket cashier?

And moreover, have you ever been watched by the wrong boy, the one you don’t like at all, but that suddenly becomes your best friend’s friend, appears in all the parties, is in all the social nets and in all your friends mobiles? I mean the kind of boy who, unexpectedly, ends seating near to you at all time. I do.

This is in fact how I started my seventeenth summer in the Pyrenees before going deep into an unknown and disturbing family past”.

More than a simple coming to age love triangle!!! The hard and dramatic experience of the men and women who crossed mountains during the Second World War through the so-called Paths of freedom will open Alexia’s eyes on the current tragedy of refugees running away from wars in search of a better future.

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Translated or published in: Spanish and Slovenia ISBN: 978-84-683-3129-4 PAGES: 216 BINDING: Paperback with flaps

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CATALAN WRITERS | YOUNG-ADULT LITERATURE

La mort a sis vint-i-cinc Death at Six Twenty Five

JORDI

CERVERA Jordi Cervera was born in Reus (Tarragona) in 1959. His professional

Only a year ago Ray “Bicho” Barbosa was signed up by the famous basketball team DKV Joventut and he has already become the star of the team. Just today the final of the ULEB Cup is being played at their pavilion against the Dynamo of Moscow, and the end is frantic: only thirty seconds before the end, the result is a draw of 93. But Ray Barbosa’s calmness makes him insensitive to the all the shouting and manages to score three points further than the line of six twenty-five: three points which mean victory.

The game is over and DKV has won the cup and mostly thanks to Ray Barbosa! All the members of the team celebrate till early hours, but the celebration ends abruptly: policemen call to tell Ray Barbosa that his wife and six years old young son have been found dead at their house. They had been coldly murdered by a professional.

career has always been linked to the world of culture, especially developing

“Although La mort a sis vint-i-cinc is aimed primarily at teenage

his profession as a journalist heading

readers, the taut style and dark subject matter of this detective novel make

several radio programs and periodical

it equal, or even superior, to many adult examples of the genre, and a worthy

publications. He has also worked

winner of the edebé literature award. The intricate plot develops and unfolds

as editor and script writer, while

in an intriguing manner, and is narrated from the point of view of a variety of

cultivating his vocation as a literary

characters, allowing the mystery at the heart of the novel to be gradually and

writer. To this end, his works span the

tantalizingly revealed to the reader”.

genres of poetry and the novel, and he

Lise Jones for the NewSpanishBooks.

has been awarded several prizes. He is married and has a daughter.

2009 EDEBÉ AWARD

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TONI COTET I

MASIÀ Toni Cotet was born in Badalona in 1973.

He has a degree in and literature. He works as teacher at a secondary school for over ten years already. Several of his short stories had been awarded. This is his first “long” story based on his day to day work experience.

I després de l’ESO, què?

What’s After High School?

Last year in school meant something very special for all of them. In the school environment, each of those boys had their place and knew how to move along. They had spent many years together, from 6 to 16 years old: they had broken friendships, made new ones, they had brief love stories or even long-lasting ones, they had hard teacher and younger ones whom they had pull their ears… However, once the year will get to its end, each of the boys would take their own way and they will lose contact. Those students would face to a new world that would address them as adults and would ask them responsibilities. Where they really ready for it?

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Nocturn per a la Mafalda Mafalda’s Nocturne

DOLORS GARCIA I

CORNELLÀ Dolors Garcia I Cornellà (Girona, 1965) has a degree on Psychology and writer since 1985 when she wrote her first novel. Her literature is aimed at children and young adults, having published more than 60 titles up until now. She also has more than 15 literary awards, some of them recognitions of Critics (such as the Serra d’Or Critical Prize), readers (Protagonista Jove) or from the librarians (White Ravens).

Diego would not have chosen his parents. Maybe this strong statement scares you, but after feeling with him the impotence of being alone, with his year-and-a-half aged sister burning with temperature, in an escalation of tension in which the small Mafalda is ton between life and death, one ends up showing real solidarity with this 15-year-old-boy.

Empathy towards the main character, Diego, is a sure path when we realize his mother is a famous yellow press journalist and his father is a busy businessman who always has “more important things” to do. Luckily, Diego is not alone as he can count on his friend Gabriela. And unsuspected characters will prove to be more caring that his parents.

Diego will show more sense of responsibility that his own parents, who are more worried about their careers than about their children’s welfare.

The author question today’s values. Those concerning parental duties as well as those which affect our society who cares more for money, careers and appearances than for any other things. Dolors Garcia I Cornellà cleverly uses the truth under Yellow press news to pose social concerns as well as to add a touch of humor on a hard story.

ISBN: 978-84-683-3466-0 PAGES: 168 BINDING: Paperback with flaps

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Iol, fill de dos mons Yol, Son of Two Worlds

JOAN MANUEL

GISBERT Juan Manuel Gisbert was born in Barcelona in 1949. He studied technical studies and has worked as a literary consultant. He studied theatre techniques and directed a group in Barcelona. Among the numerous awards his work has received, the 1995 Edebé Award for the novel ‘La voz de madrugada’ stands out. His books, which contain fantastic and real features

The disappearance of a newborn baby on a dark night will be the beginning of strange events. Two twin brothers, almost identical beings, are going to live apart in two very different realms, in two separate dimensions. A woman with fascinating violet eyes will raise one of them in Orania, a place like no other, founded by great wizards of the past. The other child will live with his parents in a rural environment submitted to the abusive power of a landlord.

Orania is both a very faraway place and very close, but without help it is impossible to reach it. Most people believe that it does not even exist, that it is a legend from long ago. They are wrong. To get to Orania, also called the Place of the Strangers, you need someone from Orania to guide you through invisible circular paths.

Both children ignore the existence of the other until fate will reunite the twins again thanks to a curse and a thrilling adventure. Aldio will have to trust an old wise man who will teach him all about ancient myths and legends, but also, how clever you have to be to fool your enemy.

at the same time, oscillate between science fiction and mystery. He likes labyrinths, islands, enigmas and arts that do not yet exist.

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CATALAN WRITERS | YOUNG-ADULT LITERATURE

La tripulació del pànic PAU JOAN

HERNÁNDEZ Pau Joan Hernández was born in 1967 in the city of Barcelona, where he studied Philology. He began to write at a very young age publishing his first novel when he was 18. It was realistic and aimed at a younger public.

Later, however, his work has been

The Panic Crew Edgar Nau was born in the Dominican Republic, but he left the country with his mother when he was just a baby and many years have gone by since they live in Cornellà, a suburb town of Barcelona. She works as a domestic servant and he is a hardworking Secondary student who dreams of a brilliant professional future. He is such a diligent student that no one would say that he is a direct descendant from Jean-François Nau, also known as L’Olonnais, the bloody pirate who, in the 17th century brought horror to the Caribbean seas and coasts.

This novel takes us into a journey through the history of piracy as well as the ins and outs of modern computer piracy.

aimed towards fantastic narrative, or narrative combining the fantastic with reality, like in The owl and the gallows, also in this collection. His novels have been awarded with a variety of prizes and are translated into other languages. He is also an accomplished poet. He currently combines his literary creativity with his reviews in different newspapers, translation (from Spanish, Basque, French and Galician)

2004 EDEBÉ AWARD

and contributing to a multitude of publishing projects. He is married and has two children.

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Quan no te’n vas When You Don’t Pass Away "My name’s Lorena and I don’t know if I should say I was sixteen and I’m not any more, or that I am sixteen and I will be for ever. My name’s Lorena and I’ve been dead for about a month and a half. The most expert readers will be thinking that when I say I’m dead I’m saying it figuratively, using an exaggerated, morbid metaphor, but I’m not into metaphors. I like to call things by their name and be understood. And if I say I’m dead, what I mean is exactly that. Dead and buried to be precise. The thing is, I have no idea why or what I am still here for. I don’t even know how I ended up dead...".

Lorena is dead but she feels more alive than ever before thanks to her memories and thoughts. She will have to find out why did she die and, above all, how to leave the world of the living beings.

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CATALAN WRITERS | YOUNG-ADULT LITERATURE

Han cremat el mar They Have Burned the Sea

GABRIEL JANER

MANILA Gabriel Janer Manila is a Catalan university professor, translator and prize-winning writer, born in Algaida,

War hangs over the country of the One Thousand and One Nights.

Yasín the musician has died and will never meet his son. The grandmother tells her not born yet grandson the stories of a legendary land under an uncertain future.

Once more Gabriel Janer Manila highlights complex family problems but this time related to the current social and political circumstances like the war in the One Thousand and One Nights country. They Have Burned the Sea is the shrill narration of a family affected by war. Through a monologue meant to be a dialogue between the grandmother and the soon to be born grandson or granddaughter, legends and stories about life in the country before the terrible event are told, also, overall, the family origins, the dead father’s work and hobbies are explained and stories about the grandfather that the new born will never meet.

Mallorca, Spain on November 1, 1940.

A prolific author who has worked in almost every genre, he is well-known across Catalonia and indeed all of Spain.

Winner of several prestigious awards (like the edebé literature award, Josep Pla, Ramon Llull, etc.), in 1994 won the Spanish National award on children’s & Young-adult literature with this work.

1994 SPANISH NATIONAL AWARD

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His titles have been translated into several languages (German, English, Spanish, Basque and Galician). In 1998 he was awarded the Cross of Saint George of the Generalitat (Parliament) of Catalonia. He is an important figure on the Catalan culture panorama and worked in several culture organizations.

Manila combines his literary career with teaching at the University of the Balearic Islands. He is the father of Maria de la Pau Janer, also a writer.

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Mai de la vida et deixaria tirada GEMMA

LIENAS Gemma Lienas (Barcelona, 1951), after working as a language and literature teacher for a while, entered the world of publishing and held management positions in various publishing houses.

She writes opinion columns for various newspapers and radio stations, and has become involved in the feminist movement. She has published numerous works for all audiences, especially her

Not in a Thousand Years A realistic choral fiction with a scathing criticism of this society that persecute success in a nonstop rhythm.

Eric and the twins Inés and María are the three main characters of this story. They have completely different personalities, same studies and passion for art, whether music or painting, and a closed friendship. The story will show us, in first-hand, about their interests and concerns during an academic course in which they undergo intense, sometimes heartbreaking, experiences, life opportunities, that will help them to grow up and to accept their weaknesses, to follow their artistic path and to value love, friendship and family above all else.

This story, with a psychotic outbreak in its climax, helps characters to take responsibility and value their abilities to follow their artistic path but without forgetting her personal wellbeing and satisfaction above success.

novels for young-adults. Her works have deserved awards and have been adapted for cinema and translated many times.

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Whapps. Mira’m als ulls Whapps. Look Me in the Eyes

ANDREU

MARTIN Andreu Martín was born in Barcelona in 1949. He studied Psychology. He worked as a comic script writer and collaborated in numerous magazines. In 1979, he published his first novel, with which he started off his long career in noir genre writing. He has received the Hammet Prize of the International Association of Crime Writers (on 3

People with heads down, eye pupils staring at games, news, films, fashion trends, photos, messages, friend’s requests, advertising spots, websites to buy and sell products: people with their ears blocked by music or constant noise that don’t allow any thought or feeling to spring. Everyone seems happy with this lifestyle, except the Mental Anti-manipulation Commands. A secret command that tries to disconnect and detoxify people to get rid of the control of phones and let people think by their own again, but they are chased by the police. When Inspector Trix Huang starts an investigation on the matter she will never imagine what it will lead her to.

Bracing against the negative attitude on behalf of her boss, she will get involved in a particular crusade against the big communications corporation that dominates the highest spheres of power and even her own police department: the Triple V. The action plot of Whapps is placed on a future society where technology completely dominates the world and where human beings live within a fictional reality, totally surrendered to screens. The sociological and psychological change is so huge that people are even afraid to look at each other’s eyes, thus they wear masks to meet people. Because even eye contact is too intimidating, so only a screen offers a secure shield.

occasions), the Deutsche Krimi Preis, La Sonrisa Vertical prize; the Sant Joan Prize and the Crims de Tinta Prize. The whole of his work has been recognized with the Prize of the Association of Private Detectives of Catalonia, the Memorial Jaume Fuster Prize and the Pepe Carvalho 2011 Prize. After winning the Spanish National Prize for Young People’s Literature in 1989 with the first book written jointly by him and Jaume Ribera, he started to write

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numerous novels for young people who have been granted the Columna Jove Prize, White Ravens, Crítica Serra d’Or Prize and the edebé literature award. His work has been translated into several languages such as German, French,

Translated or published in: Mexico, Korea and Spanish

Italian, Dutch, Lithuanian, Basque, Spanish and even the Asturian language

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Bable. He also works regularly as a

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scriptwriter for cinema and television.

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Tres desitjos Three Wishes Starting from the known myth of a genius that grants three wishes, this story fiction the comic and ethical conflicts sixteen years old could face up if it was suddenly hit by health, money and love.

Due to the economic crisis, the parents of Eric, an only child of sixteen years old, left the city and move to a farmhouse in a small town. Eric has a big shortsightedness and he is allergic to contact lenses, thus he uses horrible tight glasses that stigmatize him in his new high School, where everybody will laugh at the new one and purblind boy. Problem is the genius will not be satisfied only by granting Eric three wishes, he will also get into Eric’s body and there is when it starts a hilarious plot of humor and revenge.

Translated or published in: Mexico & Spanish ISBN: 978-84-683-2495-1 PAGES: 224 BINDING: Paperback with flaps

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Au, emboliquem la troca!

Crazy Ideas Carmen and Guillermo, two teenagers who share their passion for jokes and something else... explain us the incredible adventure they had when Guillermo’s house was assaulted by Mr. Crazy Ideas and his friends.

To laugh out loud...

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Els amos del Paradís Paradise’s Owners Ariadna and Toni have decided to write a book about the conquest of the New World by the Spanish Army. The two friends confront their History perspectives. “[This book] is a reflection about the black legend, about all the black legends. I believe that Bartolome de Las Casas was objective in his exposition. He says, and I quote literally: “Here it is a brief description of the diabolical actions that Spanish commit every day at the New World’s territories ...”. Diabolical actions. More clear, impossible. We are going to use his point of view and his testimony. Our proposal is to say that the conquest was not an open-air festival, and if you do not agree on it then the best you can do is not to buy this book. Ah, and this book it also has to do with us, about you and about me. And about another kind of conquests...”.

2005 EDEBÉ AWARD

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Ecoterroristas Ecoterrorists

ISAAC

PALMIOLA

How far would you go to stop climate change and leave a better world or future generations? Fast-paced thrillers that will make you think... a lot.

“Dear Bianca, receiving this message is not good news for me or for you. It means that they have found me and that things have really gone wrong. You need to act immediately, without

Isaac Palmiola is a rising star of the

delay. Collect the hard drives from the last update and give them

Spanish literature panorama. He has a

to Axel Green. You will find him at 22 Planella Street in Barcelona.

degree in language and literature abut

Memorize this name and memorize the address. Then delete the

he is a writer by vocation. He has worked

message, turn off the mobile and destroy it so they can’t trace you.

for television and cinema, where he

Don’t talk to anyone, especially not the police. You will endanger

learned some tips to give rhythm and

anyone you talk to. In fact, you can’t even imagine what you could

visual sense to stories. He connects well

endanger by talking to anyone”.

with young readers. He is the author of about 30 titles and his books have been translated into languages such as Chinese, Turkish, Norwegian, Japanese

The power of big hydrocarbon business to control the discovery of new alternative green energies is in the center of this thriller plot as well as the commitment of new generations to stop Climate change.

and Greek. In Ecoterroristas he uses thriller to write his most disturbing story.

ISBN: 978-84-683-5595-5 PAGES: 208 BINDING: Paperback

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Influencer.

Un any a Wonderland Influencer. A Year in Wonderland

VÍCTOR

PANICELLO Víctor Panicello was born in Barcelona in 1963. He is a consolidated writer in the field of young adult literature, with more than 20 novels published and several national and international literary awards. He combines his work as a writer with original contributions of committed literary creation in the social field. His narrative combines realistic themes, very close to the concerns and contexts of young people,

Nadia is a high school pretty clever student who one day decides to leave everything behind to become a prestigious influencer. The story takes place during one year long, divided in chapters identified per month and by Nadia’s number of Instagram followers. We will follow Nadia’s adventures to increase followers and, if the way to become an influencer is not easy, much less is to stay on the top of that world.

Friends that have to be left behind, enemies that appear around any corner, her family (her mom ends being her secretary), dates for interest… everything seems to go only around being an influencer. Also, her day to day life ends being just a consequence of the fact that she is an influencer.

Everything is tight up and measured through audience.

The obsession for a perfect body, for the amount of likes, about what they will say, the loss of privacy and parental control.

Exhausted and tired of the constant rules her arrogant agent imposed her, one day Nadia decides to take a natural photo: without makeup on or hairdressing. And as it happened in real life with the #NoMakeUpSelfie movement, her initiative becomes a phenomenon. Nadia is criticized by many people but at the time she attracts the interest of some many other people.

with the most exuberant and imaginative fantasy. His approach to reality is full of freshness and narrative rigor, based on intense research, curiosity and documentation.

LITHUANIA

Translated or published in: Mexico, Lithuania and Spanish ISBN: 978-84-683-4700-4 PAGES: 248 BINDING: Paperback with flaps

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Una balada al mar del nord RAIMON

PORTELL

A Ballad of the North Sea An innovative literary venture that allows the reader to choose the path they wish to follow the story and to discover the truth.

Raimon Portell worked as a teacher, but

“Stil looks out over the North Sea from the top of a dune. What is he

only for a short time, because he gave up

doing there? He doesn’t know himself. In fact, his memory barely

focusing on writing. He began by writing

reaches back to the moment he woke up in a strange house, inside

economic reports. Then he published a

a body that refused to respond. He does not remember who he was

lot of articles and travel reports, as

before, what he had done, or even what his name was”.

well as articles on cooking, cinema and history in newspapers and magazines. He has written travel books, history books, illustrated albums and novels. And he

The adventure of a boy who survives by intuition because he does not remember who he is, what he knows, where he has to go and in spite of it he keeps going to find the truth.

has received, among others, a couple of Crítica Serra d’Or Awards, a Llibreter Award and a National Award.

ISBN: 978-84-683-5598-6 PAGES: 124 BINDING: Paperback with flaps

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La noia de la mitjanit GISELA

POU Gisela Pou (Castellar del Vallés, Barcelona, 1959). She has been devoted to writing for twenty years already. She is the scriptwriter of several famous TV drama series (Poblenou, Secrets de família, El Súper, Laberint d’ombres, Nissaga de poder, Sin identidad,

Midnight Girl Like a Russian doll, a Matriuska, this story carries another story inside. It is the need to leave her owns present behind what makes a young woman look back towards her past, towards her own grandmother’s story.

This dual line makes the plot unfold in a parallel way, thus taking the reader towards a present of separate parents, of a conceited boyfriend and treacherous friends while at the same time plunging us towards a scary secret which took place in Germany during the Second World War. And the granddaughter will finally become strong thanks to realizing what her granny’s friend went through. Adventure, love and friendship, without forgetting History, are the main topics.

Ventdelplà, El cor de la ciutat, Isabel la Católica, La Riera, among others) which have been shown in prime-time and gathered a high market quota, while she regularly collaborates in different

* 2018 MANDARACHE AWARD * “SERRA D’OR” CRITICS AWARD

Spanish televisions as well. She is also the author of a few children & YA fiction works and a series (Sara Pegues).

Recently she published four fictions for adults (Sense mare, Soroll de fons, La voz invisible, El silencio de las viñas).

Translated or published in Ecuador & Spain ISBN: 978-84-683-1614-7 PAGES: 164 BINDING: Paperback with flaps

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NÚRIA

PRADAS Núria Pradas (Barcelona, 1954) graduated in and Literature in 1980 she began teaching language and literature in schools and colleges.

But theatre crossed her path and she created a youth drama group. Writing plays introduced her to the world of children’s and youth fiction: a field in which she has published several works with great success among her readers.

Comptant núvols Counting Clouds After a car accident, in which her boyfriend died, and in which she nearly lost her life too, Maria, a 19-year-old girl, falls into a depression. She decides to spend the summer in her grandmother’s little village, the one she used to go on holiday when she was a child, back when she was happy simply counting clouds over the blue sky.

No matter how sad she feels, meeting her childhood friends will be a most effective medicine than any other therapy to which she has been submitted until now. And without even realizing it, she will end falling in love again…

But life has a strange sense of humor and soon a conflict will arise in a love triangle form, a conflict full of past remorse.

Subsequently, she also stepped into narrative for adults with titles such as Sueños a medida or El aroma del tiempo.

After she gave up teaching she devoted herself only to writing and she now has a bibliography of almost fifty published works.

ISBN: 978-84-683-3525-4 PAGES: 168 BINDING: Paperback with flaps

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Els gats no mengen amb forquilla Cats Do Not Eat With a Fork "I turned pale just imagining the beast approaching my tree. It might have found out that I was not at home, it might have forgotten

ALICIA

ROCA

about the fat woman and her husband, and it had followed my trail here.

It was only a matter of time. Footsteps were getting closer and closer.

It was at the bottom of the tree and starting to climb the stairs. I curled up as much as I could, I cover my head with my arms, just to try to stop the first attack. I couldn’t do anything else but wait".

Alicia Roca (Barcelona, 1969) has always worked around bits and bytes.

Passionate about literature since early childhood and convinced that she wanted

Three adolescent strangers, each with their own ’misfit’ difficulties met during holidays and ended being involved in a dangerous adventure to save a newborn child. It was an experience that would go on to establish a deep friendship among them all.

to leave code lines aside and change them for literature lines, in 2011 she started a personal project called The six Impossible Things. This change of scenery will make her first book, possible.

ISBN: 978-84-683-3176-8 PAGES: 112 BINDING: Paperback with flaps

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Mangata Mangata

RICARD RUIZ

GARZÓN Ricard Ruiz Garson (Barcelona, 1973) is a writer, cultural columnist and

Jana’s family had always spent summers in a house by a lake. But this summer is going to be tough and different for them: Zya, Jana’s older sister, died last winter on a motorcycle accident. Jana had a very special relationship with her sister and she hasn’t been able to manage it very well since then. In addition, she has failed two subjects and she will have to spend the summer studying, but, also, what is more important for her, she will have to fulfill her secret promise to Zya: to dance on the light path of the full moon over the lake’s water.

a teacher at the Ecolab descriptor de l ‘Ateneu Barcelonese and in the Publishing Master at the Pompous Fabre University. From 1996 to 2016 he worked as a journalist and literary critic with his own sections in Spanish major media such as El País, El Periodic, Cadenza SER, TV3, Time Out, Queue Leer, RAC 1,

A story tied up by an art exhibition (Zya was a photographer) in which each picture is titled with a word unique in its language, a word that is impossible to translate, such as Mangata.

Catalunya Radio and RNE. He is author of several titles and anthologies and has received the Ramon Mundane award in 2016 and the Children’s edebé award in 2018. He is publishing consultant of fantasy and children literature for diverse publishing houses and a member of the AELC council as well as member of literary juries (Peer Quart, Joaquim Ruyra, Crexells…).

ISBN: 978-84-683-4933-6 PAGES: 172 BINDING: Paperback with flaps

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A saga that has captivated more than 320,000 readers CARE

SANTOS

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Care Santos (Mataró, 1970) studied Law at the University of Barcelona, but started her writing career from an early age, publishing articles in national and international publications including, Diari de Barcelona, El Mundo, Abc, La Jornada (México) and Perspectiva (Bolivia). Today, she is a literary critic for El Cultural, the literary supplement of El Mundo. She is the author of an extended narrative work for adults and for young-adults as well, indifferently in Spanish and in Catalan. Her work has been translated to more than 20 languages including English, German, French, Sweden, Korean or Italian, among others.

She has been awarded with the most prestigious literary awards. Among the Children and Young adult awards, she has achieved the Edebé award (2003 & 2015), Gran Angular (2002), Protagonista Jove (2002, voted by readers), Ramon Muntaner (2006) or the Joaquim, Ruyra (2013

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Mentida

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A Lie Xenia is a normal teenager with usual problems and a secret: she’s in love with someone whom she has never seen. She has exchanged emails with someone call Marcel because they have read the same book, The Catcher in the Rye. Its author was enigmatic, reserved: despite being able to communicate so many things to millions of readers, he lived alone. And, Marcel? Why does he avoid her? Why doesn’t he want to see her? Maybe his name is not even Marcel. Maybe his life might be a little more complicated than Xenia’s life. Maybe a longer explanation is necessary, considering that what is essential in life is invisible to human eyes. Maybe it is necessary they find out something authentic in the middle of everything to cross the abyss that separates them.

WORLDWIDE

2015 EDEBÉ AWARD

+320.000 READERS

ISBN: 978-84-683-1578-2 PAGES: 240 BINDING: Paperback with flaps

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POLAND

Veritat

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The Truth Eric is finally out of minor’s prison, after four years, he has been acquitted of the murder he did not commit but for which he assumed the punishment. In A lie, you understand Eric reasons, and you want him to be free because he is innocent, in The Truth you will realized how difficult it is to be accepted again by a society full of prejudices. He deserves a second chance but it won’t be easy at all. Luckily Xenia is there to help. Would love be strong enough to overcome all the difficulties?

ROMANIA

ISBN: 978-84-683-3310-6 PAGES: 240 BINDING: Paperback with flaps

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Fear There are moments in some people’s lives in which something happens that suddenly changes them forever. Fear. The fear of living. The fear of not being able to cope with life. The fear of having to cope with it. The fear of not knowing how to. The fear of being afraid. This story is about one of these people. It also deals with jealousy. Jealousy can destroy us from the inside; and sometimes, from the outside. Jealousy can destroy everything.

And we always pay too high a price for it. Like Eric did, like Xenia did, like Hugo did. Because learning how to live is never easy.

POLAND

ISBN: 978-84-683-4114-9 PAGES: 300 BINDING: Paperback with flaps

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Ben

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Ben “There are people who cause as much fascination as rejection, who attract you like a magnet and at the same time scare you. Something within you tells you that it is better to keep away from them. This is the story of one of these people. His name is Ben, and you may have heard of him. In fact, this story begins at a funeral. The dead guy was not even 24 years old and he has just been murdered. Some guys who hated him decided to beat him to death.

Only eight people have attended his funeral. What is left of those we once loved when they are dead? We, we remain. Our memory, our memories. Whatever we do with these”.

Ben died after being beaten to death. Few people went to his funeral. A look back into his past shows the harsh circumstances that lead a young boy to make wrong decisions, become a dealer for mafia and end up in ashes into an urn. This is Ben’s story and it doesn’t start out well, with lack of love, a childhood full of family rejection and bullying. Ben has to blaze his own path in a low-income social environment, full of gangs and violence within the family, on the streets and at school. Ben is forced to become someone to be afraid about in order to protect himself and his cousin from all kinds of abuse. Ben learns to swallow his feelings and to control his anger to become strong, rude and violent. What will be his way out? A dramatic life that does not start well and ends neither really well.

SPIN-OFF of CARE’s BESTSELLING SAGA

Saga translated or published in Ecuador, Mexico, Brazil, Poland, Slovenia, Romania, Lithuania, Spain, Catalan, Basque, Galician and TV series rights ISBN: 978-84-683-5157-5 PAGES: 272 BINDING: Paperback

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Inbox Inbox “My name is Alexia, I am 16 years old, I want to be a writer and I am your greatest fan on the planet. Your books have changed my life completely or they have changed me or they have changed everything. Without them, I would have been another person; more boring, simpler or I might have been nothing at all. That is to say, you have really been a very important person (or something similar) to me, but really important. They might have told you the same several times before, but my story is not like the other ones”.

With this email message addressed to the enigmatic writer, Benedict Woodward, a relationship between the two main characters begins. Alexia said: “It is not a story like any other, mainly because nothing is what it seems”.

ISBN: 978-84-683-4739-4 PAGES: 204 BINDING: Paperback with flaps

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50 coses sobre mi 50 Things Throughout 50 chapters, the main character tells us, as if he was a blogger, who he is, what he wants to be, what he likes, what he dislikes and what ultimately happens to him. This is how we get to know Alberto, a 16 year-old child, through his relationship with his parents, his friends, the girl he falls in love with, his environment, his hobbies… And we end up being witnesses to the alcohol-fuelled nights that many teenagers experience every weekend and what the consequences are. But, as in real life, only fighting for what you really want leads you to achieve your goals, your hopes and your dreams. Alberto will then understand why he saves his enemy.

ISBN: 978-84-683-3489-9 PAGES: 232 BINDING: Paperback with flaps

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Lalluna.com TheMoon.com Cira is a 16 years old teenager who is certainly not amongst the ten most beautiful girls in her class. Not even amongst the next ten... she is not beautiful and, as a matter of fact, she is convinced that if there should be a Beauty Contest, she would surely win the Prize Miss Ugliest. The reason is her emphatic and disproportionate nose... but even if she realizes her problem and is very conscious of such wonder of nature, she is not going to allow anyone make fun of her and she is quite ready to defend herself if anyone dares say anything. Fortunately for her, and in order to counteract such physical flaw, Cira has a lively character, a huge imagination and a daring courage. “Inspired on Cyrano’s de Bergerac play”.

LITHUANIA

2003 EDEBÉ AWARD

+62,000 COPIES SOLD

Translated or published in Lithuania, Spanish, Basque and Galician language ISBN: 978-84-236-6718-5 PAGES: 171 BINDING: Paperback with flaps

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Demana’m la lluna Ask Me For the Moon "Blanca walks towards the locker number 16 staring at the floor tiles. She opens it and collects her last belongings, the few things that she has left. Blanca is changing high school. Her psychologist recommended her to do it. In the new school no one knows her and there, Alex and his friends won’t be able to keep on humiliating her. Nevertheless, Blanca knows that she’s leaving behind a lot more good than bad, and that’s why she looks with some nostalgia at what it has been her high school since she was twelve years old. Although she also feels happy for the new life that begins and, for the first time, she feels like exploring it".

Blanca explains us everything throughout letters that she writes to his brother: we learn that she feels angry with her mother who is about to marry, scared and stupid because they are bullying her and she is unable to defend herself, sad and alone since her father died on a accident and more since his dog died too. The only thing that seems to make her a bit happy is a boy she has met on an Internet chat, under her alter ego Buranka. But life couldn’t be crueler with Blanca, a girl who already had a sad past.

ISBN: 978-84-236-8352-9 PAGES: 200 BINDING: Paperback with flaps

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