{"id":4496,"date":"2021-01-22T15:34:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T14:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saskiavonhoegen.de\/?p=4496"},"modified":"2021-02-12T15:03:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T14:03:50","slug":"maria-barbal-awarded-with-the-premi-josep-pla-for-her-new-novel-tandem-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saskiavonhoegen.de\/en\/maria-barbal-awarded-with-the-premi-josep-pla-for-her-new-novel-tandem-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Barbal awarded with the Premi Josep Pla for her new novel &#8220;Tandem&#8221;,"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Catalan author Maria Barbal has now been awarded with the <em>Premi Josep Pla<\/em> for her new novel &#8220;<em>Tandem<\/em>&#8220;,<\/strong> which will be published in Spain by Destino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saskiavonhoegen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/portada_tandem_maria-barbal_202101131203.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4756\" width=\"134\" height=\"197\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In the words of the author<strong> T\u00e0ndem <\/strong>is a story about happiness and second chances. Both protagonists, Elena and Armand, from the moment they meet, try to get rid of everything that traps them, the painful facts, the errors&#8230; recover their spontaneity, and understand that each one of them has to love themselves first in order to recognize the joy of the present. The story of <strong>T\u00e0ndem<\/strong> explores the human capacity to put aside thoughts and routine actions and to be carried away by life.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Maria Barbal is one of the most influential names on the Catalan literary scene. <\/strong>Her career as a novelist and short story writer began with the critically-acclaimed <strong>Stone in a Landslide <\/strong>(Pedra de Tartera, 1985), which quickly became a classic ofcontemporary Catalan narrative. <strong>The novel was translated into 15 languages. <\/strong>Barbal\u2019s contribution to Catalan literature has earned her numerous awards,including the Critics&#8217; Prize, the National Prize for Literature, the Serra d&#8217;Or Prize and the Creu de Sant Jordi, the highest medal awarded by the Catalan government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We represent German and Dutch translation rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t hesitate to ask for further information and submission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catalan author Maria Barbal has now been awarded with the Premi Josep Pla for her new novel &#8220;Tandem&#8220;, which will be published in Spain by Destino. In the words of the author T\u00e0ndem is a story about happiness and second chances. Both protagonists, Elena and Armand, from the moment they meet, try to get &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saskiavonhoegen.de\/en\/maria-barbal-awarded-with-the-premi-josep-pla-for-her-new-novel-tandem-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about  Maria Barbal awarded with the Premi Josep Pla for her new novel &#8220;Tandem&#8221;,<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saskiavonhoegen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saskiavonhoegen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saskiavonhoegen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saskiavonhoegen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saskiavonhoegen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saskiavonhoegen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saskiavonhoegen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saskiavonhoegen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saskiavonhoegen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saskiavonhoegen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}