The writer and philosopher Arià Paco has won the 10th Anagrama Book Prize for Novels 2025, with Teoria del joc. Honest and incisive, Arià Paco opens the door to a male narrative about heterosexual desire, seduction and sex for a new generation of men who are not quite different but are no longer the same; a narrative that has no use for old stories or labels, and that has a whole new landscape to explore.
This is the third novel by the 31-year-old writer from Igualada. In 2020 he debuted with the work Mentir a les mosques, which won the XXVI Premio de Novela ‘Valldaura - Memorial Pere Calders’, organised by the City Council of Cerdanyola del Vallès and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), centred on a refugee whom the extreme right threatens to expel. Subsequently, in 2022, the author received the Roc Boronat literary prize for Covarda, vella, tan salvatge, in which he delved into the discontents and contradictions of young millennials. With Teoria del joc, Paco has established himself as one of the most promising young writers of Catalan literature today.
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