The Spanish writer of novels aches and Pains Round won this Saturday, the 65th edition of the Planeta Prize, the most gifted of the Spanish literature, by the plot police “will give you All this”, announced the jury in Barcelona.
“Every year from my house, when I saw an author that went up here, I dreamed of being I,” said the Round, after receiving the award from the hands of the king of Spain. The finalist of the contest was the Spanish Marcos Chicot with the historical novel “The murder of Socrates”.
The novel prize winner de 601.000€, presented as the “Sun of Thebes” and the pseudonym of Jim Hawkins, focuses on the dark family secrets that shall be unstopped after the death in an alleged traffic accident of a famous writer.
“it Is a novel about greed, and that teem around it, but it is also a novel in favor of truth and against impunity,” said the writer, author of the successful “Trilogy of Baztan”, starring the inspector Amaia Salazar.
“The murder of Socrates”, a winner of a prize of 150.250 € “a historical novel” but “with elements of tension and intrigue,” said Chicot, a specialist in killing Greek thinkers as their first novel of success was “The assassination of Pythagoras”.
The writer basque aches and Pains Round, born in 1969 in San Sebastian, takes over from the teacher of Spanish of the novels of Alicia Giménez Barlett, who won the prize in 2015 with the “naked Men”, in which she temporarily abandoned the frames police for social criticism.
on the occasion of its 65th anniversary, the Planeta Prize broke its record of manuscripts sent to, 552. Throughout its history, this event accumulates with 22,000 original and the 42 million copies sold-of all their award winners.
In the winners of this contest, organized by the leading publisher of Spanish-speaking, are Nobel prizes for Literature as the peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa or the spaniard Camilo Jose Cela, and other writers of renown such as Eduardo Mendoza, Maruja Torres, Juan Marsé and Manuel Vázquez Montalban.
(Source: AFP)
No comments:
Post a Comment