The first solo presentation ofAi, Milia, the novel Magda Añondistinguished with the Lletraferit Award for Novel 2025, this will take place Thursday 25 from June to 19.00 hours in the hall of the October Center for Contemporary Culture from Valencia, in an event organized by the Fan Set bookstore. The author will talk to the editor Vincent Baydal around a work that has already aroused the interest of readers and critics for its narrative strength and the depth of the topics it addresses.
Published by Shipyard books, Ai, Milia is a novel set in a Valencian town during the years of the Civil War and the immediate post-war period, which takes as its central axis the figure of Milia, a marginalized young woman, considered crazy by her neighbors, but endowed with enormous human complexity. The family gravitates around him fennel —Silvina, Modest and their children—, who suffers firsthand the consequences of Franco's victory: the repression, the disappearances, the by, hunger and the destruction of a world that seemed solid. With rich prose, sensory and deeply evocative, Magda Añon construïx una gran novel·la coral sobre la memòria, the guilt and the human consequences of the Valencian post-war period.
The jury of Lletraferit novel prize 2025 he particularly emphasized the literary quality of the work, the solidity of its narrative architecture and the author's ability to create an absorbing atmosphere from the first pages. The novel presents a protagonist marked by the need to understand facts that have been buried for years, a search that will end up confronting her with the shadows of the past and with the consequences of everything that was not said. Like this, with Ai, Milia, Magda Añon confirms a mature literary voice, able to combine sensitivity and narrative forcefulness.
The author, born to Alginet, he has participated in cultural and artistic projects and also as a rhapsode in numerous recitals. He writes from a small but systematic way since his retirement in the 2021. She has been a finalist for the Artemis Women's Award (Cornellà de Llobregat, 2019) with the story three rains, has received the Women's Narrative Award (GVA, 2020) per Candles, has been awarded the XIX Youth Narrative Prize of Torrent (2021) for the novel Otranto, and has won the VIII Lletraferit Prize for Novel for Ai, Milia the Adolfo Utor Acevedo Poetry Awards 2026 per Blanca in a skirt.
Thursday's presentation will be, therefore, a privileged opportunity to get to know first-hand the process of the novel's development, its references and the concerns that have driven the writing of a work that aspires to leave a mark on readers. During the conversation with Vicent Baydal, the author's career will also be discussed, of the meaning of the award and of the main thematic axes that run through the book. The act, free access until capacity is reached, will serve to kick off the public route ofAi, Milia, one of the most outstanding literary bets of the season in Valencian. Attendees will be able to chat with the author and purchase copies of the novel, which is already available in bookstores.
