Madrid, España.- The writer Ignacio Martinez de Pison was recognized today with the National Fiction Prize awarded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of Spain for his work “The good reputation”.
The jury defined the work of the Spanish writer as “a portrait of the Judeo-Spanish world in Melilla at the time of the Protectorate” and highlighted the “development of a complex network of family relationships as part of a long story, very faithful to the novelistic tradition. “
Martinez de Pison (Zaragoza, 1960), is licensed in Hispanic and Italian Studies and won the Casino of Mieres prize with his first novel,” The tenderness of the Dragon “(1984) .
The story “The Edge of eyes”, included in his “Somebody is watching in secret,” was made into a theater in 1990 and his novel “Secondary roads” was adapted for film in 1997 by Emilio Martínez-Lázaro.
Other works that were awarded various prizes are “good reputation” (2014), “The Day After Tomorrow” (2011), “Milk teeth” (2009) “Bury the Dead” (2006) and “Maria Bonita” (2000).
The National Fiction Prize is endowed with 20,000 euros ($ 22,508) and given to the work of a Spanish author written in any of the official languages and published in Spain. Last year he went to the Valencian Rafael Chirbes recently deceased.
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