A great dragon with a mouth full of roses, with Pedro Almodóvar and the poet and actress Juana Dolores in front, last night presided over the already traditional photography of authors of the Sant Jordi festival by La Vanguardia. An explosion of roses that for the authors and editors – and many filmmakers and politicians, including seven ministers, election year rules – gathered yesterday for the tenth year at the Alma hotel in Barcelona, ​​perhaps today will become the metaphor not only of the return through the door great of the book festival after years at half throttle due to the pandemic and last year’s hailstorm, but of what they believe will be a record Sant Jordi today, the best in history.

The authors were the protagonists. From the queen of Scandinavian noir Camilla Läckberg to the queen of the Baztán valley, Dolores Redondo, from Luz Gabás to Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, from Carles Porta to the director of Cervantes, Luis García Montero, Manuel Vilas, Santiago Lorenzo, Laura Ferrero, Fernando Aramburu , Julia Navarro or the hypermedia Risto Mejide and Jordi Évole.