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Laia Aguilar
Laia Aguilar was born in Barcelona in 1976 and has a degree in Audiovisual Communication. She combines writing books with scriptwriting for television series. She has published the book Wolfgang, Extraordinary, which was the winner of the 2016 Carlemany Prize and the 2018 Atrapallibres Prize, Wolfgang, Dad’s Secret (the first book’s sequel), and Juno, which won the 2020 Menjallibres Prize and the 2020 Protagonista Jove prize. Her first novel for adults, Sea of Stars (Pluja d’estels), was awarded the 2020 Josep Pla Award, and was followed by Other Mothers (Les altres mares) and All Those Seas (Tots aquells mars). In 2026 she won the Ramon Muntaner Prize for YA fiction with her forthcoming novel The Escape (La fuga).
