Godó Prize for Investigative Journalism

Prisma Prize to the best popular science book published in Spain
On el dia dorm amb els ulls oberts (Where the Day sleeps with open Eyes) reconstructs the journey made by young scientific journalist Toni Pou to the Canadian Arctic. Embarking the Amundsen, he participates in the investigation carried about by the boat’s state of the art scientific installations. Somewhere between travel book, scientific investigation and personal chronicle, he tells the story of the people aboard the boat, and their day to day existence in such strange surroundings. In a fresh simple account full of intimate anecdotes, Toni Pou shows us not only the peculiarities of the Arctic but also many of the characteristics of science in general.

Intelligent, sensitive and very well written, On el dia dorm amb els ulls oberts is a tiny jewel that transports you to a far-away world evoking images of the epic polar expeditions of the 19th century.

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Press

There is a lot of literature in "Where the Day sleep with open Eyes" : the way it is written, the quotes of Poe, Nabokov, Gombrowicz...
El País
The two cultures of  C. P. Snow shaking hands... It doesn't happen so often!


La Vanguardia
A good diary where interviews, dinners and appropiate references to songs  are combined with a look to the first polar explorers.
Ara
Toni Pou set the bar high, but he seems talented enough to break his own record.

El Mundo
The beauty and intensity of a story that evokes the best epic adventures of ancient polar expeditions.
Le Monde Diplomatique
It accomplishes its popular science goals without giving up literary quality nor cultural references. 
La Vanguardia
A journalistic story written with intelligence and sensitivity in order to capture life on board the Amundsen and arctic landscape.
Efekto Noticias
Science may look distant, but it is a deeply human activity.


El 9 Nou
Science is culture, mainly for three reasons: curiosity, aesthetics and knowledge.

El Punt Avui
Enterteining like adventure novels, unique like travel books and intriguing like science.
Diari de Terrassa
It combines the daily life of a scientific journey to the Arctic with the delirious quest to the North Pole.
La Vanguardia
The author did it so well that the book was awarded with the Godó Prize for Investigative Journalism.
Diario vasco
Science is a fundamental part of Culture.


Diari de Balears
The author combines his experience on board the Amundsen with the epic adventures of the first arctic expeditions.
Efe
What I like of the book is the way it shows the mechanism of curiosity.

La màquina de fer llibres
One of the fifteen chosen science journalists to travel to the Arctic on board the Amundsen in orther to tell cutting edge arctic research.
La línea del horizonte
A combination of science reporting about the research set against a background of the 19th century explorers.

World Fed. of Science Journalists
A literary and scientific exploration of the Arctic.


La Vanguardia
A remarkable example of a combination of two literary genres not so easy to find together: adventure books and popular science.
Hablando de ciencia
It is a very pleasant reading and skillfully combiness science, history and anecdotes that, one way or another, catch the reader.

nosaltresllegim.cat
A part from witnessing scientific research, Pou also keeps other memories in his head. 

Sistema Tierra
A meditation on the link between science knowledge and aesthetical pleasure.


Hora nova
The midnight sun that lulls the summer arctic days gives us a suitable image to describe the enlightning goal of Toni Pou's book.
Racó de lectura de Montse Boher

Radio / TV Interviews

Catalunya Ràdio (La Tribu)
Catalunya Ràdio (El cafè de la República)
Cadena SER (La Ventana)
Ràdio 4 (Entre hores)
La Xarxa (Eureka!)
La Xarxa (Extraradi)
Radio Asturias (La buena tarde)
Radio Euskadi (La casa de la palabra)
Ràdio Cardedeu (Ex libris)
El 9 TV (7 dies)