Literary awards given in Barcelona
A large number of literary, cultural and editorial awards are announced and presented every year in Barcelona in recognition of poetry, fiction or plays, as well as translations, publishers, book shops or public figures who help support, promote and publicise local and international literature and culture.
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RAMON LLULL DE LES LLETRES CATALANES
The Ramon Llull award has been presented by the publishing house Planeta since 1981, and jointly with the Government of Andorra since 2006. The aim of the award is to promote and publicise literary creations in Catalan language. The award is open to both works of fiction and non-fiction. Award winners include Joan Perucho (1981), Pere Gimferrer (1983), Terenci Moix (1992), Lluís Anton Baulenas (2005) and Vicenç Villatoro (2010).
RBA DE NOVELA NEGRA
The publishing group RBA presents the international RBA award to crime fiction presented in English or in Spanish. The Barcelona local Francisco González Ledesma (2007), the Italian Andrea Camilleri (2008), the Scotchmen Philip Kerr (2009) and Ian Rankin (2016), the North Americans Harlan Coben (2010), Patricia Cornwell (2011), Michael Connelly (2012) and Don Winslow (2015), the Icelandic Arnaldur Indridason (2013) and the British Lee Child (2014) form part of the group of award winners.