Antentas’ An October in Catalonia covers the 2017 independence referendum there, but leaves many questions unanswered, finds ...

But students in Catalonia lost even more, and native Spanish-speakers did worse than Catalan-speakers to boot—a failing critics were quick to pin on language policy. In the 1980s Catalonia began ...

rule. The use of Catalan - a language as close to regional languages of southern France like Occitan as it is to Castilian Spanish - has equal status with Castilian. Read more country profiles ...

Spanning five languages, the shortlist includes first-time nominations for books translated from Catalan and Bulgarian. Leïla Slimani, the chair of judges, described the titles as “bold ...