Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

  The writer and literature teacher Roser Caminals is the winner of the 41st BBVA Sant Joan Prize for Catalan literature with Garbo Speaks . The award-winning novel has as its sole protagonist the Catalan secret agent Joan Pujol i Garcia, alias, Garbo , who played a decisive role in World War II, deceiving the Nazis about the place and scope of the Normandy landings. Joan Pujol Garcia (1912-1988), Garbo or Arabel for the Germans, is... - Read more

This is the third novel by Roser Caminals who, just like in her previous novels, has decided to set the plot her of her story in Barcelona at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. This novel is focused on the social tissue of the city at that time, where the ideals of anarchism lived side by side with those of the rich and pretentious bourgeoisie. Teresa, a young working girl, falls in love with an Aristocrat that makes a... - Read more

Roser Caminal’s novel tells the story of Andreu Nadal, a successful young architect but social misfit, who has climbed from obscure poverty into Barcelona’s upper-middle class in the year 1920. He is an imaginative designer anxious to break with the derivative, warmed-over noveau buildings his partners put up, but he is also curiously empty emotionally. One night, Nadal wanders outside his comfort zone and ends up rescuing a... - Read more