The writer Agustín Fernández Mallo (A Coruña, 1967) has won the First Eugenio Trías Essay Prize for his work La forma de la multitud. Convened by the Eugenio Trías Center for Philosophical Studies (CEFET/Pompeu Fabra University) and the Galaxia Gutenberg publishing house, the prize is endowed with 8,000 euros and has been decided by a jury chaired by Victoria Camps and made up of Marina Garcés, Antonio Monegal, Miguel Trías, Joan Tarrida and David Trías, the latter with voice but no vote.
The jury has highlighted the originality of the approach to the work of Fernández Mallo and the "lucid and suggestive use of scientific knowledge applied to philosophical reflection and the analysis of contemporary human identity", as reported by Galaxia Gutenberg.
The shape of the multitude is a book that speaks "of the critical processes of construction of our analog and digital contemporaneity, and the thought of Eugenio Trías, his opening, has been an unquestionable inspiration", the author has indicated after hearing the news of the reward.
The Shape of the Multitude will be published in Galaxia Gutenberg in February 2023, coinciding with the tenth anniversary of the death of the Catalan thinker Eugenio Trías.
