Marta Sanz won the Novel Prize Herralde with “Farandole” | Peru Trade – Trade

The Spanish writer Marta Sanz won the 33rd Herralde Novel Prize with “Farandole”, an ironic story about the life of artists, their insecurity and political implications .

The novel, presented under the pseudonym Lorenzo Lucas and entitled “Faralaes and Tarantula”, won the 579 works submitted for the prize, worth 18,000 euros and won in the past by Javier Marias, Alvaro Pombo or Roberto Bolaño among others.

In her numerous characters of “celebrity”, an established actress, a former stage actress now forgotten, a young aspiring star or become the winner of the prestigious cross Volpi Cup for Best Actor Film Festival of Venice.

Through this array of characters, the author reflects on “the prestige of culture and art invervenir possibility into reality on the devaluation of the public image of the artist and his precariousness, on the contradiction between glamor and commitment, “said the publishing Anagram in a statement.

Marta Sanz ” uses laughter as a tool diagnostic. An edge, funny, sad, sharp, urgent text. It is nonsense, “he continued.

The irony is a common resource of this writer born in Madrid in 1967, as seen in his novels” The Anatomy Lesson “or” Black, black, black “and sequel “A good detective never not home,” where large doses of sarcasm applied to the novel.

PhD in philology, with this sum Sanz eleven novels, and three books of poetry.

The presentation of this award to the Madrid writer puts an end to two years of Mexican rule of the award, won in 2014 by Guadalupe Nettel with the romantic “After Winter” and in 2013 by Alvaro Enrique with “Sudden Death”.

The finalist was also Spanish Miguel Angel Hernandez with “The moment of danger,” the second novel by writer, presented under the title “Dark Chamber” and the pseudonym D. Holz.

(AFP)