The writer Paloma Sánchez-Garnica (Madrid, 1962) was the winner of this 2024 edition of the Planeta Prize with her work entitled Victorya story set during the Cold War.
Sánchez-Garnica submitted the novel to the Planeta Prize under the title Good night and good luck and the pseudonym Anna Akhmatovaas the jury announced this Tuesday during the awards ceremony at the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC).
The winning novel tells how Victoria, defeated in Berlin in the Second World War, is forced to go to the United States to serve as a spy for the Russians, and experiences a love story there.. The protagonist returns to her town where she becomes a famous radio host, manages to reunite with her family and experiences the construction of the wall first-hand.
The author was already a finalist for Planet of the Year 2021 with the novel Last days in Berlin. In 2014 he published The sonata of silence, of which an adaptation was made for a series in FTE which marked her consecration as a writer of great literary personality.
El Planeta, which is celebrating its 75th edition this year, is equipped with a million eurosis the best-endowed literary prize in the world. It is this astronomical figure that this year’s winner will take home. An amount within the reach of a few; The author of the finalist novel pockets a total of 200,000 euros. These awards date back to 1952 and their amount exceeds awards such as the Nobel Prize or the Cervantes Prizes.
the novel Last days in Berlinsigned with the pseudonym Yuri Zhivagowas a finalist in the 70th edition of the Planeta Awards. A work presented with the title children of angerfeaturing brothers piecing together their family history in Stalin’s Russia, the Spanish Civil War and Nazi Germany, i.e. the Europe of totalitarianism.
Among the books of the Madrid writer Paloma Sánchez-Garnica They include:
- The great arcana (2006)
- The east breeze (2009)
- The soul of stones (2010), which enjoyed great commercial success.
- The three wounds (2012)
- The sonata of silence (2014)
- My memory is stronger than your forgetfulness (Fernando Lara Novel Prize 2016)
- Sofia’s suspicions (2019), which already has 22 editions.
- Last days in Berlinawarded the finalist of the Planet Prize 2021
- The sonata of silence (2014) of which an adaptation was made into a series in FTE.
Beatriz Serrano, finalist
The Madrid writer and journalist Beatriz Serrano is a finalist for the 2024 Planeta Prize, worth 200,000 euros, for the novel “Le feu dans la gorge”, as the jury announced this Tuesday during the awards ceremony at the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC).
The finalist author submitted his submission to the Planeta Prize under the pseudonym Entropium and the novel with the title Miracle.
It is an initiatory novel in which the protagonist, holder of certain supernatural powers, travels through the 90s and the first years of the 21st century.
Daughter of a woman condemned by the society of the time for feeling different, the protagonist becomes an adolescent who rebels against the abandonment she suffered in her childhood.
Serrano (Madrid, 1989) graduated in journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid, she developed her career in digital journalism, specializing in new stories, and has written for several media outlets.
