ABSTRACT
In October 1929 the Catalan Football Association (CFA) announced the first César August Torres Literature and Sports Prize, named after the famous Catalan walker, climber and author of guides to the Pyrenees. The prize was to be awarded to a work written in Catalan that exalted sport in some way. The initiative of the CFA was not an isolated event: the Fédération Française de Football had first awarded a sports literature prize in 1928, several years after the inauguration of other prizes, notably that given for the dramatic arts as part of the Paris Olympics of 1924.
