The Ramon Llull Novel Award (; ) is an honor given annually to a novel originally written in Catalan. Conceived in 1981 by editor , it is awarded by the Planeta publishing house in conjunction with the Government of Andorra. It confers a monetary prize, originally 250,000 pesetas and now (). It recognizes works of the greatest economic value in the Catalan language.
The original objective of the award was not only to encourage the writing of books in Catalan, but also to provide the greatest possible social and commercial dissemination, both to the works and to the authors. Therefore, the winning work is not only published in Catalan, but is immediately translated into Spanish and distributed throughout Spain and Latin America.
Although initially the award was reserved for novels, it is currently also open to essays and memoirs.
Winners Edition Year Work Author Ref 1st 1981 Les aventures del cavaller Kosmas Joan Perucho 2nd 1982 Sala de miralls 3rd 1983 Fortuny Pere Gimferrer 4th 1984 El rellotge del pont d'Esplugues 5th 1985 El misteri del Cant Z-506 6th 1986 Zona marítima Olga Xirinacs Díaz 7th 1987 Somni Delta 8th 1988 Moro de rei Pau Faner Coll 9th 1989 Joc de miralls Carme Riera 10th 1990 Elogi de la passió pura 11th 1991 Castell de cartes Luis Romero 12th 1992 El sexe dels àngels Terenci Moix 13th 1993 El jardí de les palmeres 14th 1994 La Rambla fa baixada 15th 1995 Marià Manent, biografía íntima i literària Albert Manent 16th 1996 Santa Maria, pa cada dia 17th 1997 D'avui a demà Joan Corbella 18th 1998 Parada obligatòria Joan Barril 19th 1999 Lola Maria de la Pau Janer 20th 2000 Delictes d'amor Maria Mercè Roca 21st 2001 L'emperador o l'ull del vent Baltasar Porcel 22nd 2002 Les seduccions de Júlia 23rd 2003 El final de joc Gemma Lienas 24th 2004 Les set aromes del món Alfred Bosch 25th 2005 Per un sac d'ossos Lluís-Anton Baulenas 26th 2006 Farsa Màrius Serra 27th 2007 Tigres Gabriel Janer Manila 28th 2008 L'últim patriarca Najat El Hachmi 29th 2009 L'últim home que parlava català 30th 2010 Tenim un nom 31st 2011 Amor i guerra Nuria Amat 32nd 2012 La dona veloç Imma Monsó 33rd 2013 L'estiu que comença Sílvia Soler 34th 2014 Desig de xocolata Care Santos 35th 2015 Algú com tu Xavier Bosch 36th 2016 La filla del capità Groc Víctor Amela 37th 2017 Rosa de cendra Pilar Rahola 38th 2018 La força d'un destí 39th2019El fill de l'italiàRafel Nadal40th2020Tota una vida per recordarNúria Pradas41st2021L'home que va viure dues vegadesGerard Quintana42nd2022BenvolgudaEmpar Moliner43rd2023París érem nosaltresAndreu Claret44th2024Història d'un pianoRamon Gener 45th2025Aquest tros de vidaEstel Solé 46th2026La segona vida de Ginebra Vern
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