In the gray after the war Barcelona is the first capital of 100,000 pesetas, Jose Manuel Lara and his wife María Teresa Bosch founded Planeta publishing house. They gave him that name because Lara, an Andalusian born in El Pedroso, Seville, who arrived in Barcelona as captain of the Legion during the war, did not think about it. “nothing more”. I’m not wrong.
75 years later, a Reyes will lead this Tuesday at MNAC and for the third time sending ma Planet Award. The last time we saw it Felipe and Letizia At the party of the publisher who today leads the Spanish publishing market, it was in 2021, the time of masks and hydroalcoholic gel, that it was revealed who was behind the pseudonym. Carmen Mola. The first was in 2016, during the club’s 65th anniversary.
Earth night is usually good extraliterary thermometer and this version has proven to be a return to what political scientists often call it “Institutional normality”and the presence of President of the Government of Catalonia, Salvador Island. The last president to attend the event was, in fact, Carles Puigdemontbefore suddenly changing zip code. It was in the 2016 edition, in which he joined the Kings, the vice president Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, Ana Pastor and Santi Vila. It’s raining.
Kings in Mnac, led by political leaders, for the 2024 Planeta Prize. / Manu Myrtle
Felipe had words in memory of Antonio Skármeta, the Chilean writer who died this Tuesday, winner of the Planeta in 2003. He also praised the approach of the group led by Crehueras. “The Planet manages, year after year, to talk about books; that the invitation to read takes the right place in our time. That is, on its own, good news, because as Vargas Llosa said, when collecting, in 2010, his. Nobel Prize in Literature, “Learning to read is the most important thing that has ever happened to me in my life”“, he said. “Reading is important to create free citizens. Reading shapes our minds, our understanding of the world, our critical spirit,” he added.
The Kings arrived in the Oval Room with Illa (sitting at dinner to Felipe’s right), Ministers Jordi Hereu and Ernest Urtasun and the Mayor of Barcelona Jaume Collboni. The first to step on the blue carpet was the host, president of the club, José Crehueras and his wife Columna Martí. Then the authors showed: the first, the student Carme Riera and Juan Trejo, and then ‘old people of the planet’ such as Sonsoles Ónega, Eva Garcia Saenz de Urturi, Cristina Campos (accompanied by her husband Jaume Balagueró) and Manuel Vilas. Also Juan Manuel de Prada, Marta Robles, Vanessa Monfort, Marcos Chicot and Carme Chaparro, Dolores Redondo and César Pérez Gelida; Ángel Martín and Henar Álvarez following, Pilar Eyre, Carmen Mola, María Dueñas, Ayanta Barilli and Nieves Herrero.
Planeta is more than a publishing house, and its media presence has also been recognized in the presence of figures such as Julia Otero, Luis del Olmo, Matías Prats and Mónica Carrillo, Gonzo, Mamen Mendizábal and José Yélamo. Even María del Monte, together with his wife, did not want to miss it.
