The first wave of titles in the Sant Jordi best-seller ranking has already occurred a few hours after the Diada, in the non-fiction section in Catalan. The journalist Carles Porta has taken first place with his Tor: Foc encès (La Campana) from the psychoneuroimmunologist, nutritionist and physiotherapist a title that also appears in the top 5 in Spanish.
The Gremi de Llibreters de Catalunya already warned weeks before Sant Jordi that there could be changes to the list in the days after April 23. For this reason, they decided to call the usual ranking ‘literary trends’ and recalled that a definitive scrutiny would not be presented until April 29, since that will be when the sales of street stalls are incorporated and the total billing is recorded.
The president of the Gremi de Llibreters, Èric del Arco, explained in a press conference that “what happened last year has been taken into account”, as several titles were on the podium in the following days of the festival. see if the measure will avoid previous controversies.
The Chamber of Books of Catalonia, an institution that brings together the guilds and associations of publishers, booksellers, distributors and graphic communication in Catalonia, does not rule out that there may be more title dances. The information is based on data collected by LibriRed, the automated sales system for bookstores throughout Catalonia.
