The Sant Jordi Prize, now with 75,000 euros, becomes the most endowed in Catalan literature

The jury of the award, with a grant of 60,000 euros so far, will reserve the right to select a finalist work that will be awarded 10,000 euros.

The Sant Jordi Prize for the novel will take a leap forward in its 66th edition. Òmnium Cultural and the Univers publishing house – a subsidiary of Abacus – have announced that the prize money will amount to 75,000 euros, making it the best-endowed prize in Catalan literature. The amount will be distributed in 60,000 euros directly to the author, and 15,000 more on account of the copyright, contributed by the co-publishing house. This new call i…

Once again, the Sant Jordi festival has become a media and commercial spectacle behind which hides the growing commodification of culture, converted into a product of rapid consumption. What should be a celebration of literature has been transformed into a race to see who sells the most books and who gets the most screen time. Contributing to this degradation are some media and publishing houses that, driven by the logic of marketing, turn Sant …