Olga Merino it’s already in your hands award given by real academy of the spanish language Best Literary Work for his novel ‘La forastera’ (Alfaguara), 19th edition. He received it from academic Juan Luis Cebrián at a gala full of words and silences, in honor of Juan Mayorga’s ‘Silence’, interpreted by actress Blanca Portillo before the ceremony. It couldn’t be more appropriate, because almost all award-winning works focus on just that, what’s said and what isn’t, what we feel and what we’re silent about.
“It is a great honor for me to reach this audience, thanks to the academics who appreciated this work and my effort. I believe it would not be arrogant if I said that I felt this house somewhat belonged to me. At least I have a tile from the entrance for the love of the Spanish language in which I was born. A love I thought I was born into when I discovered it at the age of ten. dictionary genius trying to explain the complexity of the human being in which every concept, every object is sheltered in one word. I would like to underline that the award-winning novel ‘La forastera’ pays homage to that empty and forgotten Spain that began to show signs when Don Miguel Delibes entered this house. The Barcelona writer, collaborator of El Periódico de Catalunya from the Prensa Ibérica group, said in his speech, “more or less all of us come from there.” one of the most important writers of our time.
Prize offered for ‘La forastera’ Mario Vargas LlosaJosé Maria Merino and Carme Riera, and an economic donation of 20,000 Euros, delivered with a commemorative medal. The novel tells the story of Angie, who, after a youth full of excesses, leads an introverted life in a village in the south of Spain. Crazy and eccentric for the neighbors, only visible in the company of their dogs, his existence takes place in an old family home between the ghosts of the past and the present.
Olga Merino (Barcelona, 1965) also published titles such as ‘Red ashes’ in Ediciones B and ‘Paper spurs’ in Alfaguara and ‘Dogs barking in the basement’. She won the Vargas Llosa NH Short Story Award in 2006 for her short story ‘Rules are the rules’.. the author is publishing EL PERIÓDICO magazine on current affairs and literature ‘La espiral de la libreta’, a format similar to its last book ‘Cinco inviernos’, The memory of his experience as a correspondent for this newspaper in post-Soviet Moscow.
Bollain and Maixabel
In the field of philological research, recognition fell Isabel Burdiel for his work Emilia Pardo Bazan and the RAE-Borau el paraguayo award in the film scripts section. Marcelo Martinessi for his job “Heirs” (2020) and Icíar Bollaín and Isa Campo for ‘Maixabel’ (2022). The film director collects this privilege, named after his friend and collaborator as an actor in the movie ‘Leo’. Referring to Mayorga’s work, Bollaín said, “We wanted to talk about people who use words to get closer, to understand each other, to build and coexist, but we realized that the most important thing is both the spoken and the unsaid.” Maixabel Lasa’s approach to her relationship with the murderer of her husband, Juan María Jáurregui, Ibon Etxezarreta, a member of the terrorist organization ETA.
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