BarcelonaThe writer Najat El Hachmi was born in Morocco (Beni Sidel, 1979) and arrived in Vic when she was just eight years old. You can imagine her adolescence when you read the novel. The secrets of the Nur, in which a twelve-year-old girl who wants to be a writer discovers the racist and classist world and her Muslim and sexist family. Najat El Hachmi has become a renowned writer, with awards such as the Ramon Llull, the Nadal, and the Ciutat de Barcelona, and she fights for equality and freedoms to triumph, both in the country that welcomed her and in her home community.