Seville writer Silvia Hidalgo won XIX Tusquets Prize a novel equipped 18,000 euros and a bronze figurine designed by Joaquín Campswith his work ‘Nothing to Say’ is a psychological portrait of a woman confronting her contradictions and the whirlwind of modern life.
winning novel, It prevailed among 672 manuscripts submitted to this call.is “A true and heartbreaking story about the experience of desire and passionabout how he got through it 40 crisisAccording to the decision, anxiety about social success, disappointment with home and interest in the forbidden.
The jury, chaired by Antonio Orejudo, consisted of Bárbara Blasco, Eva Cosculluela, the winner of the previous edition Cristina Araujo and editor Juan Cerezo.
Silvia Hidalgo admitted that she was studying computer engineering, although no one around her devoted herself to literature.I have had a passion for fiction and stories since my childhood and I never dreamed of this award.This will challenge me and give me security.
Winner said: “I don’t remember consciously writing this novel.Yes, when I rewrote it later, it was very sensual, very deep, born out of negative emotions that we didn’t feel comfortable with at all.”
Hidalgo reminded this “Resentment, desire for revenge, anger, resentment, even jealousy are emotions that we never take on.We reject them, but if we assume that they arise from vulnerability, something beautiful can emerge.” Precisely, he adds, the hero finds this vulnerability in the return to innocence.
Which in the novel? Tusquets will be released on October 18, a woman is focused on her cell phone and a date with a stranger while she waits in the car for her ex-husband to pick up their mutual daughter, who is crying in the backseat. In this wait, she allows herself to be carried away by her raw, open desire for which motherhood, family and work take a backseat.
The hero wants to escape the mirage of false happinessHowever, she finds herself facing the abyss of an unhealthy and unstable relationship with the manager of her ex-husband’s company. a “tumor man”.
The jury, Bárbara Blasco, emphasized that ‘Hidalgo is about the drift of love in these postmodern times, which is one of the biggest changes today’ and praised the style and work with language. The Seville writer used a new style for Eva Cosculluela, ‘brazen and at the same time grumpy, avoiding goodness’. Of this, Hidalgo stated: ‘I initially considered first person, but then chose to pit the narrator against the protagonist.’. Editor Juan Cerezo compares Silvia Hidalgo to Marguerite Duras “with its disturbing scenes, indescribable emotions, and fluid, brilliant writing that leaves a trail of shock.”
He was born in Seville in 1978 and continues to live and write here. Hidalgo describes herself as a computer engineer, mother, movie buff and reader.. His ‘novels’ had been published before.grow bangs‘ (Mother’s Love, 2016) and ‘I lie‘ (Transit, 2021).
Regarding the influences, Hidalgo explained that he has a special “altar of desquiciadas” with the authors writing “and”.This literature in which female heroes are not only the objects of violence but also embrace that violence“, an altar on which he places Elfriede Jelinek, Ariana Harwicz, Olga Tokarczuk, María Fernanda Ampuero or Duras.