Teresa Solana wins the 19th edition of the Catalan Roc Boronat Prize-ONCE Catalunya, for her short crime stories 'Matèria gris'
The Roc Boronat prize was awarded last 9 March at ONCE Auditorium in Barcelona. 'Matèria gris', a collection of eight long stories, will be published in Catalan, next May, by the publisher company Amsterdam-Ara Llibres.
Teresa Solana lives in Oxford and she is the only Catalan author to become a finalist for America’s Edgar Allan Poe prize for mystery novels. She studied philosophy and worked as a literary translator and essayist. She has written several novels and short stories. A Not So Perfect Crime, her first published title, won the 2007 Brigada 21 Prize for the best Catalan mystery novel. Her last novel Campanades de boda (Wedding Bells), another case of the twins private detectives Eduard and Pep, was published in 2016.