The Valencian writer Rafael Chirbes yesterday was awarded the National Prize for Fiction, worth 20,000 euros for his book On the shore , a portrait of Spain in crisis. A novel, on the jury, “of extraordinary literary construction, dealing with the current reality is not limited to realism, showing a formal richness and poetic devices that transcend” opinion.
On the shore has also won the award for its threshold Francisco literary excellence and the National Critics.
The writer, born in Tavernes and Valldigna (Valencia) in 1949, opened with his novel The long march (1996) his trilogy on the Spanish society that reaches the Transition and followed in 2007 talking about the Spain of the crisis and the housing bubble with Crematorium , a work that also reported the National Critics Award.
On the shore (Anagram) Chirbes continued to put the knife on Spain marked by crisis and corruption with the narrative of the drama of the lives of five unemployed and his former chief. All this in the midst of a social fresco marked by migration, the hardships, the erosion of family relationships or lack of money.
“Blame the success of the novel lies with the times, more than the book. Match all the desolation of the country,” said Chirbes yesterday, considering that In the pull over “is a little pleasing and little complacent difficult, hard novel. I thought I would not like it, but the novels are understood in their time.’s why I want to thank the jury for the award that has been valued, because I know it is difficult to tame. ”
Today Chirbes feels equally pessimistic, although much is still laughing, because human life is very hard. “Anyway, I think the book’s success is due more to civil movement that the book,” says the author who admires Galdós and gives much importance “to the form and substance of the book.”
Chirbes, which ensures that you do not know how he was born in this story (“That’s something you can not control: it has not been for being Valencian, as it could have been treated Pujol of Catalonia, the ERE Andalusia or Madrid Esperanza Aguirre “), adds that” we continue the same or worse. already are not surprised at all, because we are realistic. ”
“The political class has undermined primarily by his own creation, the way it was formed in this country and how this country has been doing.’re The ones who brought us here,” he says.
“In Spain we are now living, he explains the disappearance of the second restoration, a similar time to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century with the duel between Canovas and Sagasta, now with bipartisanship” .
The National Fiction Prize, awarded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, recognizes the best book published in Castilian or any of the other three official languages of the State.
The jury ruled the award was chaired by María Teresa Lizaranzu and includes, among others, by Carme Riera, José Luis Vicente Ferri, Julia Otxoa, Carmen del Riego, Angel Basanta, Javier Rodríguez Marcos and Javier Merino , winner of the last edition.
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