The jury, which was chaired by writer Rosa Montero and integrated also by Antonio Soler, Angel Basanta, Ramón Pernas, Ana Rosa Semprún and Miriam Galaz, said that although it is a novel set in the English Civil War has a very timely because it "addresses from the present." The story is based on the life of a former guerrilla who is Maquis forced to emigrate to South America, more specifically on the banks of the Parana River.
finalist this call has been Alejandro Palomas with a novel entitled Soul of the world. Both works will be published by Editorial Espasa and the winner becomes entitled to a sum of 200,000 euros, which makes this one of the most economically desirable prizes in the English language. The finalists get a second prize of 30,000 euros.
Del Pozo is a journalist, he has served as a columnist and chronicler parliamentary current both in print and on radio and television. Heir to the space occupied by Francisco Umbral in the newspaper El Mundo, published in this newspaper column entitled "The noise of the street" since 2007. As a novelist also has a long history and has published works including the following: Night of gamblers (1994), The Bride (1995), the kings of the city (1996), it's not smart to kill a woman barefoot (1999), Levitical City (2001), A Bambi does not like Wednesdays (2003), The Goddess of blue pubis (2005), co-written with Espido Freire.
About the winning work has said he does not seek to enter into polemics or somehow divided opinions since it is a work in which there are good and bad. The reconstructed history of the conflict but seeks to transcend the opposition between the guerrillas and the civil guards and reflects on the controversial historical truth. Dove's novel, on the other hand, is much more personal and focused on the story of an elderly couple in a nursing home and is a reflection on loneliness, communication, love and felicidad.20 minutes / LIVDUCA
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