We know Narcís Oller by the nickname "father of the modern Catalan novel." Because he was the one who laid the foundations for a literary genre in Catalan that gained European prestige at the end of the 20th century.Oller was born in Valls in 1846. As a young man he moved to Barcelona, ​​where he died in 1890. He never left his contact with Valls, to the point that he dedicated many pages to his work. Valls served him as a starting point and as a stimulus to create "VILANIU" and to make other novels.