Laia Aguilar (Barcelona, 1976) is a Catalan author, television screenwriter, and teacher. She holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Universitat Ramon Llull, she teaches at the Writing School of the Ateneu Barcelonès, and she also writes for TV shows. Her previous books are Les bruixes de Viladrau (Ara Llibres) and Pare de família busca... (Al Revés). In 2016, she was awarded the Carlemany Prize for the promotion of reading for Wolfgang (extraordinari), in 2018, she published her second novel for teens, Juno (Fanbooks) and in 2019, she followed up Wolfgang with a sequel. In 2020 she was awarded the Josep Pla Prize for Pluja d’estels (Destino, 2020), a novel for adults that tells the story of a group of friends who reunite for a weekend at Cap de Creus, some years after a tragic incident.
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