He Planet Group Experience a very special evening this Tuesday with the celebration of the gala of 75 years of the publishing housein which the 73rd prize will be awarded to the best of Spanish literature. In 1949, José Manuel Lara created the Planeta editorial team; They have since been published 135,000 poundswith 1 billion copies soldaccording to the president of the Group, José Creuheras.
The first Planeta Prize began with the awarding of a modest amount of 40,000 pesetasan amount which has increased considerably to reach million euros received by Sonsoles Ónega, the last winner of the Prize.
Among the most emblematic laureates, we find the Nobel Prize Mario Vargas Llosa; the Cervantes prizes Juan Marsé and Ana Maria Matute (first woman to win it); the National Literature Prize Vazquez Montalbán; Antonio GalaGold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts; either Carmen Moláthe only time when several authors took it up.
Creuheras welcomes the fact that young people “read a lot more” in recent years, predicting the “best year in the history of the publishing sector” before the gala. The president of the Group remembered the two winners of the competition who recently passed away, Rosa Regas and Fernando Delgado.
The finalist works for the LXXIII Planeta Prize
This edition had 1,070 original works from around the worldwith a jury composed of José Manuel Blecua, Juan Eslava Galán, Luz Gabás, Pere Gimferrer, Eva Giner, Carmen Posadas and Belén López. Of the total originals presented, 494 come from Spain, 246 from South America, 59 from North America, 24 from Central America, 20 from Europe and one work from Israel, while 226 have not been not indicated their origin.
The titles and authors (or their pseudonyms) of the finalist works are as follows:
- ‘The man from Garibaldi Square‘, by Antonio Chaves Ferrand (pseudonym)
- ‘Rare child of the wet pampas‘, by Baltasar Valdez (pseudonym)
- ‘What is written‘, by Elizabeth P. Vaquero
- ‘The bitter taste of chrysalises‘, by Pasiphaé (pseudonym)
- ‘Miracle‘, by Eutropio (pseudonym)
- ‘female metamorphosis‘, by Jon Mur (pseudonym)
- ‘I only use hate‘, by Gallo (pseudonym)
- ‘Good night and good luck‘, by Anna Akhmatova (pseudonym)
- ‘Satan is free‘, by Ernie Loquasto (pseudonym)
- ‘rain of glass‘, by Dolors Fernández Guerrero.
