The literary world also opens its gifts on Three Kings Day. Letters will meet this Saturday, January 6 at the Palace Hotel in Barcelona, where the Nadal Prize for Novels and the Josep Pla Prize for Prose in Catalan will be presented during a dinner.
A total of 824 works have been submitted to this new edition of the Nadal award, number 80, which remembers at all times its first winner, Carmen Laforet, who won in 1944 with Nada, the work with which she portrayed the poverty that It was experienced in the Spanish post-war period during the first years of Franco's rule at the hands of Andrea, its protagonist.
Destino, the convening publisher, reports that, in 2024, the works called "reflect the diversity and richness of the novel genre in Spanish."
The organizers also applaud the "very high participation", in which "a predominance of crime novels and thrillers can be seen, often with a feminist background; and other literary proposals located in the present and of an intimate nature also abound."
The award for this award is 30,000 euros, and the manuscripts come, by province, from Madrid (94), Barcelona (42), Seville (28), Valencia (26), Murcia (20), Alicante (15), Granada (12), Las Palmas (12), Tarragona (11) and Málaga (10).
The jury is made up of Inés Martín Rodrigo, Care Santos, Lorenzo Silva, Andrés Trapiello and Emili Rosales.
As for the Josep Pla Prize, endowed with 10,000 euros, in this edition 37 works have been received, which come from almost the entire Catalan-speaking world. Among the originals coexist diaries, memoir narrative, fantasy genre works, thrillers and historical novels.
The Plan jury is made up of Laia Aguilar, Marc Artigau, Montse Barderi, Manuel Forcano and Glòria Gasch.
In the previous edition of the Nadal and Pla awards, they won the Nosotros award, by Manuel Vilas, and La llei de l'hivern, by Gemma Ventura Farré, respectively.
