Once again this year, the Inca Town Council commemorates Sant Jordi’s Day and organises an extensive programme of activities for the Festival of the Book. Year after year, the council of the capital of Raiguer promotes this initiative to encourage reading, especially among children, and to bring literature closer to the citizens.
Thus, the Book Festival kicks off on the 12th of April, at noon, with a literary Vermouth in the Cloister of Sant Domingo. Marta Vives, author of the book ‘Tienes la fuerza de las cosas’, will talk with Cati Ramis. They will be accompanied by Caterina Alorda, who will read excerpts from the book, and Noa Oliva, who will add a musical note to the event.
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Inca celebrates the Festival of the Book with an extensive programme of activities for all audiences
The Inca Book Festival will continue on the 16th of April, with a reading in the street, with pupils from Inca’s primary and secondary schools, starting at 9 a.m., in the Plaça d’Espanya.
On Sant Jordi’s Day, 23rd April, the Town Hall square will be filled with book and flower stalls. In addition, to accompany the day, there will be activities for all the family. At 11 a.m. there will be a dramatised storyteller with the Clown Sabatot, who will give his amusing version of the story of Little Red Riding Hood. At noon the Bruixa Mamaduixa will sing ‘A different Sant Jordi’ and at 4.30 p.m. you can enjoy the Rondalles for all the family by the company Teatrix.
In addition, the little ones will be able to take part in a very creative workshop that will teach them how to make personalised bookmarks to remember this special day. It will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. also in the Plaça d’Espanya.
As every year, on the 23rd of April, the City of Inca will host the award ceremony for the City of Inca school literary prizes, and the young winners in the categories of Writing, Glosado, Short Story and Poetry of 2025 will be announced at 5.30 pm.
To end the evening, and this time in the Cloister of Sant Domingo, the book that brings together the papers presented at the XXV edition of the Conferences of Local Studies of Inca will be presented.
The traditional Sant Jordi reading organised by the Es Convent Foundation could not be missed, which will once again take place in Sa Capella at 7 pm.
Presentation of the book ‘Tienes la fuerza de las cosas’, by Marta Vives
The Inca Book Festival kicks off with the presentation of the second book by author Marta Vives. ‘Tienes la fuerza de las cosas’ tells four stories based on real events that speak of life, death, motherhood, illness, love and all the human contradictions.
Marta Vives, after ‘Let’s Say Love’, has brought together in her new book ‘You Have the Strength of things’ four powerful stories whose common thread is friendship between women. Using stories taken from reality, the author distils them and turns them into tales that go beyond any imaginable fiction. They are experiences marked by joys, sorrows, true and false loves, deception, extreme situations and the presence of death that we find when we turn a corner at random.
The women in these stories are not perfect, of course, but they are powerfully flesh and blood, showing their strengths and weaknesses, mistakes and successes, servitudes, commitments, passions and generosity that make them profoundly human.
Marta Vives has linked the four stories to four forces of nature: the sea, volcanoes, trees and truth, elements that the author draws from some verses by Enric Casasses that came to her through a friend in extraordinary circumstances. In the epilogue, the author tells a fifth true story that embraces and runs through the other four stories in an almost organic way.
Marta Vives (Reus, 1976) is a journalist. She has worked in radio, television and digital media in Catalonia and Mallorca. She has been a member of the team of El matí de Catalunya Ràdio and is currently the head of the culture section of Catalunya Ràdio’s news services. She is passionate about reading and storytelling. ‘Let’s Say Love’ (Ara Llibres, 2022) was her first book.