Planet Award 2022: Luz Gabas won the award for Far From Louisiana.

spanish writer light gabs This Saturday, he won the 2022 Planet of the Novel Awards, one of the most awarded in the literary world, for his work “Far from Louisiana’, in the issue of the female domain, which became a finalist Christina Campos.

Gabas received a one million euro (about $970,000) award for this historical novel, set in this territory in the southeastern United States that briefly belonged to Spain in the 18th century.

“This is a novel about the effort and strength required to move forward in times of uncertainty, disease and war,” said the author, accepting the award at the end of a traditional literary dinner held this year at the National Museum of Art of Catalonia. , in Barcelona.

An award very popular with readers Spaincomes to Luz Gabas a decade after the great success of her first novel.”palm trees in the snow”, released in 2012, which was translated into different languages ​​and later adapted for cinema.

Cristina Campos in second place

Born in 1968 in Huesca, this writer and university professor still lives in a small town in this mountainous region in northeastern Spain, at the foot of the Pyrenees.

From there, he wrote his next works and a winning novel, the last one during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

“This novel has really been a test for me as a writer, but I am very proud of it,” she added. light gabs for three “difficult” years.

In this 71st female-dominated edition of the award, the shortlisted entry is “History of Married Women” from Barcelona. Christina Campos.

Her account of infidelity earned the writer and screenwriter the second top prize of the evening, €200,000.

“The intimacy of a married woman helps me talk about female intimacy, about desire, about the inability of a certain type of woman, or most of the women I know, to separate sex from feeling,” she explained, picking up the phone very excitedly. Your prize.

Planet Award, Double Surprise in 2021

As is tradition, the long-awaited verdict was the culmination of a crowded literary dinner that revealed the winners of this prize, which was already the prize with the largest economic contribution of Latin American letters, before it was increased to one million euros last year.

With this increase, planet it surpassed the size of the Nobel Prize in Literature of 10 million SEK (about $884,000).

His meticulous staging, which mentions the great names of the Spanish political and cultural class, in addition to the high publicity that surrounds his traditional October 15 speech, makes Planet Award springboard for multiplying the sales of famous authors in the panorama of letters in Spanish.

In the 2021 edition, the surprise was double when the prize went to the novel “The Beast” by an enigmatic successful writer who signed under the name Carmen Mola. But behind the pseudonym was not the reticent high school teacher hitherto believed to be, but the authors Jorge Diaz, Agustín Martínez and Antonio Mercero, who first showed their faces while collecting the award from the hands of the kings of Spain. .

For him Planet Award 2022 A record number of 846 candidate novels were submitted, most of them from Spain (405), followed by 224 novels from South American countries such as Argentina (72) and 82 from North America.

(According to AFP).

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