Albert Pijuan wins Joan Creixells Prize for Narrative
Albert Pijuan’s latest novel La Gran Substitució (Angle Editorial) has been the winner of the 54th Joan Creixells Prize for Narrative, the oldest in Catalan literature, awarded by the Ateneu Barcelonès since 1928.
The jury for the 2025 edition was formed by Anna Ballbona, Andreu Gomila, Eva Piquer, Francesco Ardolino and Valèria Gallart, who have assessed Pijuan’s work as “a bold and contemporary novel, which plays with the fantastic, psychoanalysis, the inferiority complex, conspiracy theories and everything that marks our time“, arising from a long obsession with the universe of Nicolas Cage, which the author has ended up pouring into this very cinephile text.
Pijoan has a degree in Political Science and Philosophy, and has been responsible for the development of teaching materials for various subjects in the curriculum of the Bachelor in Humanities at eUniv. He is also a professor in the Master in Literary Creation at the School of Writing and Communication Laboratorio de Lletres.