Just a year ago, Sonsoles Onega's main project was to succeed in the afternoons of Antena 3 and in view of the results of the relentless share, that summit has been more than conquered. But last night, before nearly a thousand guests at the MNAC in Barcelona and winning the Planeta 2023 award, she confessed that she had never dreamed of crowning the Everest of Spanish letters. “Eighteen years have passed since my first novel; This is a story of accumulated failures, I have lost most of the awards I participated in and I have won this very important one.” Her novel, The Maid's Daughters, presented under a pseudonym and with the title Autumn Without You, won the call with the greatest competition in the history of this award: in its 72nd edition, the Planeta publishing house had to choose among 1,129 works submitted from all points of the globe.
Boris Izaguirre and Adela González are the couple who command the set of Más vale sabbath, Sexta's new project for Saturday afternoon, and together they smile at the photocall: “It is the first time that I have posed with him at the Planeta award. Atresmedia presenting team. It is a new stage and the full circle. Well, I have been a finalist but I was in other media; Now I just need to win the Planet (laughs),” Izaguirre reflects. If Adela highlights Boris's encyclopedic memory, he recognizes that he has established “a live friendship” with her and that he would be lame without a talented partner to place him on the peninsular map.
The writer of Venezuelan origin has been a close friend of Tamara Falcó, a relationship that was ruined by certain controversial statements she made within the framework of an ultra-Catholic event held in Mexico. It seems that the matter is being redirected: “Adela herself interviewed me about the incident we experienced this last year and I was finally able to clarify all things. We have talked, we continue to do so and I hope to find the time to meet all of us and have that pending conversation.” His next work for Planeta already exists although it is an embryo and is secret.
Pedro Jota Ramírez, editor of the newspaper El Español, is going to be a grandfather. It is difficult for him to be the protagonist of the happiness that overwhelms him: “It is something that concerns my son, whom I always wish maximum happiness, and since he is a reserved person, I will not be the one who gives three quarters to the town crier,” he explains with a smile that It doesn't fit his face. We press on this project like a grandfather and seeing that it continues to come out in peteneras – he explains his vision on the Hamas attack on Israel and its military response in the Gaza Strip –, we play a single card without leaving the personal area. Would you greet her ex, Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada, if she ran into her at a gala like the one tonight? “I never talk about my personal issues; I haven't done it in seven years and I'm not going to change. I prefer that we move from Gaza to Puigdemont. Of course, I would like to sit down and talk to him and hear what he thinks about the issues that concern us.”
José Yélamo, presenter of laSexta of audience. He will be a boy and the name is chosen. We joke about destiny as a movie star or a scholar of old manuscripts for someone called to face the world with a business card that can read Yago Yélamo del Fraile. “Although it sounds very cliché, what we want is for them to be good people and for them to be natural: I think that we increasingly live in a more artificial and imposed world and right now being natural and honest is a value to promote.
Yélamo shares a table with Roberto Leal, essential face of Atresmedia and today in charge of Pasapalabra and El Challenge (Antena 3). The presenter is about to premiere Casafantasmas, a program that he himself produces and in which his mother – Mercedes Guillén – will accompany him to places of mystery, haunted houses and (supposedly) haunted castles to live chilling experiences in person. “I think we have created a new format, that of misterimor, that is, mystery humor.”
It is inevitable to ask the journalist Nieves Herrero, who is already working on her next book, about the biography La baronesa, about Carmen Cervera, Thyssen since she married the largest European art collector. Although the meetings between the two were many and well documented, Tita Cervera dissociated herself from Herrero's work with intemperate boxes. After a few months of silence, the baroness attacked the news from ¡Hola!, her main magazine, posing with her daughters Carmen and Sabina: “I love the two girls, they couldn't be more beautiful; They lack nothing for coming of age. I will tell you that everything is very good, in the line that we have been maintaining lately (laughs). But we really love each other and it shows. “Carmen Cervera is a woman with a very, very interesting life and whom I respect a lot for her work in the field of culture.”
Herrero denies that the baroness threatened her with taking legal measures. How much would a book about the baroness' secrets that cannot be told be worth? “Carmen is a very friendly person and she quickly confides in you, but I think she chooses people very well, whom we will never fail. But I won't open my mouth if she doesn't." And this chapter, naturally, fits the difficult relationship that Tita has with her son and what role Blanca Cuesta, Borja's wife and mother of her children, plays in it. Nieves is already working on her next book, in this case a novel with a female protagonist inspired by a real character.
This year Fernando Sánchez Dragó has left us, a writer who was a Planeta finalist with The Path of the Heart and winner with The Labyrinth Test. The journalist Anna Grau was his partner and tonight she praises his memory: “With his disappearance, Spain has lost a very great point of view, it has lost a visionary of our complexity, a progressive fascist, a very free man, one of the best people who "I have known one of the most lucid minds and one of the greatest cultural disseminators in this country: no one like him brought high culture to the common people and made the love for language, for books, for knowledge vibrant." Grau, who serves as spokesperson for Ciudadanos in the Parliament of Catalonia, is optimistic about the questionable future of his party, which is clearly in decline: “If I wasn't afraid of being Sánchez Dragó's girlfriend, am I going to be afraid of being in Ciudadanos? ? Stay to see how the movie ends. You should never jump off the bike before the end.”
