The novel I gave your eyes and you looked in the darkness by Catalan Writer Irene Solà Has won the European Literature Prize 2025. That was announced by the Dutch Foundation for Literature on Wednesday.
The European Literature Prize is awarded annually to the best contemporary European Novel That was published in Dutch Translation in the Previous Year.
The jury calls I gave your eyes and you looked into the darkness “a generous novel in which all of life is celebrated and cursed in a grand way.” The Story Follows Multiple Generations of Women Who Come Together at the Deathbed of Bernadeta on a Farm in the Catalan Mountains. Accordance to the description, The Story Spans Both One Day and More Than Four Centuries.
The Book was translated from Catalan by Adri Boon. Both Solà and Boon Will Receive a Cash Prize or 10,000 euros.
The Award Ceremony Will Take Place on November 8 Turn the Crossing Border Festival. Boon PreviOutly Received the European Literature Prize in 2022 for his Translation of the Nocilla Trilogy by Spanish Writer Agustín Fernández Mallo.