Overview
- Marquès received the XLVI Premi de les Lletres Catalanes Ramon Llull in Barcelona for La segona vida de Ginebra Vern.
- The prize is endowed with €60,000, with the novel going on sale Wednesday.
- The project began with a real announcement in the small Sabine County Reporter, which Marquès traced to Hemphill, Texas.
- She traveled to the town to report firsthand and contacted people linked to the notice.
- According to Marquès, those individuals felt wronged by the viral coverage, were reluctant to speak, and in some cases left the community, a backdrop for the book’s critique of clickbait and the gap between facts and narrative.