The Prudenci Bertrana prize is a literary award for novels written in Catalan

Catalan language

Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...

. It has been awarded annually since 1968 in honour of the Catalan author Prudenci Bertrana (1867-1941). The winner receives €42,000, and the prize is considered one of the most prestigious awards in Catalan literature.

The Fundació Prudenci Bertrana makes the award in September of each year at a ceremony in Girona

Girona

Girona is a city in the northeast of Catalonia, Spain at the confluence of the rivers Ter, Onyar, Galligants and Güell, with an official population of 96,236 in January 2009. It is the capital of the province of the same name and of the comarca of the Gironès...

. At the same time it makes awards for the best Catalan language poetry, essay, children's literature and website.

Winners

Year	Novel	Author
2010		Agnès Rotger and Nàdia Ghulam
2009		Màrius Carol
2008		Silvia Soler
2006		Alfred Bosch
2005		Maria Barbal Maria Barbal Maria Barbal is a Catalan writer.-Career:Even though she has lived in Barcelona from the 1960s onward, the literary world of her early work as an author concentrates on the Pallars county of her childhood and adolescence, a rural surrounding observed by a critical eye...
2003		Julià de Jòdar
2002		Jordi Arbonès
2001		Vicenç Villatoro
2000		Lluís-Anton Baulenas Lluis-Anton Baulenas Lluís-Anton Baulenas is a Catalan novelist and playwright.Among his works are the novels Rampoines 451 , Noms à la sorra , which was a finalist for the Sant Jordi Prize, Alfons XIV , also a finalist for the Sant Jordi Prize, El fil de plata , which was awarded the Serra...
1999		Martí Domínguez
1998		Imma Monsó Imma Monsó Imma Monsó is a Catalan fiction writer.Monsó is known mainly for her humorous and poignant novels and for blending an absurdist wit with a profound tenderness for her very singular characters. Monso is graduated from University of Barcelona, Spain and Caen University in France...
1997		Baltasar Porcel Baltasar Porcel Baltasar Porcel i Pujol was a balearic writer, journalist and literary critic. His enormous legacy credited him as one of the greatest authors in Catalan literature from the 20th century.-Biography:...
1996		Antoni Marí
1995		Maria Mercè Marçal Maria Mercè Marçal Maria Mercè Marçal i Serra was a Catalan poet, professor, writer and translator.She spent her childhood in Ivars d'Urgell . She went to high-school in Lleida and studied Literature at the University of Barcelona. In 1972 she was driven by circumstances to marry the poet Ramon Pinyol Balasch...
1994		Ramon Solsona
1993		Sergi Pàmies Sergi Pàmies Sergi Pàmies is a Spanish Catalan writer, translator, journalist and television and radio presenter. He is the son of the writer Teresa Pàmies and the former general secretary of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia, Gregorio López Raimundo. In his works he employs humor and parody mixing...
1992		Jaume Cabré Jaume Cabré Jaume Cabré i Fabré is a Catalan philologist, novelist and screenwriter.Graduated in Catalan Philology by the University of Barcelona, high-school professor in leave of absence and teacher to the University of Lleida, member of the Philological Section of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans.During...
1991		Maria Antònia Oliver
1990		Josep Lozano
1989		Jaume Melendres y Joan Abellan
1986		Ferran Cremades
1984		Joaquim Soler
1983		Jaume Cabré Jaume Cabré Jaume Cabré i Fabré is a Catalan philologist, novelist and screenwriter.Graduated in Catalan Philology by the University of Barcelona, high-school professor in leave of absence and teacher to the University of Lleida, member of the Philological Section of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans.During...
1982		Josep Lluís Seguí
1981		Lluís Racionero
1980		Carme Riera Carme riera Carme Riera Guilera is a novelist and essayist. She has also written short stories, scripts for radio and television, and works of literary criticism...
1978		Lluís Fernández
1977		Antoni-Lluc Ferrer
1976		Quim Monzó Quim Monzó thumb|Quim MonzóQuim Monzó , is a contemporary Catalan writer of novels, short stories and discursive prose, mostly in Catalan. In the early 1970s, Monzó reported from Vietnam, Cambodia, Northern Ireland and East Africa for the Barcelona newspaper Tele/eXprés...
1975		Baltasar Porcel Baltasar Porcel Baltasar Porcel i Pujol was a balearic writer, journalist and literary critic. His enormous legacy credited him as one of the greatest authors in Catalan literature from the 20th century.-Biography:...
1973		Biel Mesquida
1972		Oriol Pi de Cabanyes
1971		Terenci Moix Terenci Moix Terenci Moix was a Spanish Catalan writer who wrote in Spanish and in Catalan. He is also the brother of poet/novelist Anna Maria Moix....
1970		Vicenç Riera Llorca
1969		Avel·lí Artís-Gener
1968		Manuel de Pedrolo Manuel de Pedrolo Manuel de Pedrolo i Molina was a Catalan author of novels, short stories, poetry and plays. He's mostly known for his sci-fi novel Second origin typescript.-Mini-biography:...