The narrator, poet and translator Marilar Aleixandre (Madrid, 1947), who uses Galician as a literary language, was awarded the 2022 National Narrative Award for her work ‘As malas mulleres’ (Galaxia). women in the 19th century.
The prize, awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Sports, was awarded 20,000 euros and, according to the jury’s decision, recognized “its unique hybrid nature, making it a unique historical novel about the prison situation of women in the twentieth century”. , with admirable dialogue and mastery of language”.
In addition, the jury noted that “the work brilliantly evokes memory in dialogue with the literary tradition. A chorus of female voices from various social classes introduces elements of popular poetry and oral culture.”
Of the jury, the author “emphasizes inequalities and also presents a hopeful outlook: emphasizing the importance of human resilience and capacity for liberation, fraternity and commitment to others,” the jury stated.
Born in Madrid, Marilar Aleixandre took a chair at the Institute of Natural Sciences in 1973 and traveled to Galicia, where she taught Biology in both secondary education and at the University of Santiago de Compostela. His professional life has developed around writing and teaching, teaching the subject of Didactics of Science at the University of Santiago.
He regularly collaborates in literary magazines and the literary pages of La Voz de Galicia and El Correo Gallego.
His first steps in the literary world were in children’s fiction, where he was a finalist for the Merlin Prize in 1986 and 1987. In the field of adult writing, titles such as “Chaos Theory” (Xerais Novel Prize 2001) or “As malas mulleres” (which also won the 2020 Blanco Amor de Novela Prize) and the poetry collection “Mudanzas” won the 2006 Caixanova Poetry Prize. The winner entered the Royal Galician Academy in 2017.
The jury, chaired by María José Gálvez, director general of Books and Promotion of Reading, consisted of Guillermo Rojo Sánchez, appointed by the Spanish Royal Academy; Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo of the Royal Academy of Galicia; See Karmele Azkarate Villar for the Royal Academy of Basque Language; Manuel Llanas Pont for the Institute for Studies; Catalans; By Angel Calpe, Valencian Language Academy.
Also, Francisco Florit Durán, Conference of Presidents of Spanish Universities (CRUE); María Luisa Etxenike Urbistondo on behalf of the Spanish Writers Association (ACE); Fernando Larraz Elorriaga of the Spanish Association of Literary Critics; Carolina Fernandez Garcia; Federation of Spanish Journalists’ Associations (FAPE); Isabel Ortega Sánchez of the UNED Center for Gender Studies; Margaryta Yakovenko Zhurabel on behalf of the Ministry of Culture and Sports and award-winning author Jesús Antonio Fraga Sánchez in the call for 2021.