At the literary event, sponsored this year by a Kings, Felipe and Letizia, and celebration of 75 years of Grupo Planetaon Planet Award he has blessed one best-selling authorwa clear commercial solvency, and house symbol. Paloma Sánchez-Garnica (Madrid, 1962) was close to winning in 2021, when he became the finalist with ‘Last Days in Berlin’, a book written in Nazi Germany. Now he has succeeded the best prize in the worldand one million euros, thank you ‘Victoria’a story that seems to be a continuation of that, which takes place inside 1946 and how the protagonist, a German girl, comes from Berlin was conquered after World War II to where USA from the beginning of The cold warwhere he will be a love story and he will be forced to do so Russian spies.
Also ‘at home’ they will keep 200,000 euros of the prize the last task, to start ‘Fire in the throat’, the second book by a Madrid-born writer Beatriz Serrano (1989), 35-year-old journalist, presenter podcast Arsenic Caviar, won by Ondaswhich published ‘El discontent’ a year ago, on Temas de Hoy, a ‘planetary’ sign. His thoughts star a young man who rebels He was abandoned by his mother and suffered as a child looking for his name internet cats. What’s surprising is that he realized he had it spiritual power.
A festival supported by Kings
The jury’s opinion of the 73rd edition has been revealed in gala ceremony, in the Oval Hall of the National Museum of Art of Catalonia (Image of MNAC) of Barcelona, which in 2024 had the flavor of major events due to the celebration of 75 years of the group, was founded in 1949 by José Manuel Lara Hernández.
The current president of the publishing and audiovisual conglomerate, Jose CreuherasHe has hosted a dinner with many people people from the country of culture and authority, especially thanks to the presence of the President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, after many years there are no independent leaders in the age of ‘procés’. He was found again servants about culture, Ernest Urtasunand Industry, Jordi HereuMinister of Culture, Sonia Hernandez, and the mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Colboni.
Creuheras also encouraged “resolving conflicts” and thanked the king for his “absolute dedication to the people”, who together with Leticia attended the cultural award ceremony for the fourth time. The first ones were in 2011, 2016 and 2021. Tonight, in addition, Philip VI he has read the speeches articles, in which he highlighted that “reading is necessary to create free citizens” and he did not forget to remember. and Antonio Skármeta, Planet winner in 2003 with ‘The Dance of Victory’, whose death was announced a few hours earliers.
A ‘best seller’ after the defeat of the Nazis
There is no doubt that Sánchez-Garnica, as has happened in recent ‘planets’ such as Dolores Redondo, Luz Gabás, Eva García Sáenz de Urturi or Sonsoles Ónega, will make Planeta’s million euro investment profitable. He is very important in the bookstore, as evidenced by the more than 22 editions of one of the best sellers, ‘Sofia’s Suspicion’, or the five he added. ‘My memory is stronger than your oblivion’, the book for which he won the Fernando Lara Prize in 2016and a reward from Planet orbit. A graduate of Law and Geography and History, it was ‘The Sonata of Silence’, from 2014, where his adaptation was made into a TVE series, which established him.
Sánchez-Garnica, who introduced himself to the Planet and pseudonym of the Russian poetess Anna Ajmátovatells in ‘Victoria’ the events of a A German girl who after the Nazi victory, After the Battle of Berlin, in 1946, he found safe passage to the United States, where he was forced to become a spy for the Russians. There, in a similar plot, he goes on a witch hunt during the McCarthyism already ethnic persecution written in eKu Klux Klan. Back in Berlin, the protagonist becomes a famous radio presenter, is able to reunite with his family and live building a wall.
A woman criticized by people
Beatriz Serrano, who in ‘El Discontent’ made a play on the work of a frustrated thirty-year-old, he also put himself in the shoes of a woman and described ‘Fire in the throat’. mid 90s and early 21st century This story is about a girl whose mother left her with her father overnight when she was nine years old. Now she alleviates her loneliness by joining online chats where she finds her best friends. Until they turn 18 and receive a package where there is a copy of the motherwho does not know whether he is alive or dead. In those pages he explains why he left and the problems he had when he felt that he was criticized by the people of that time because he felt different.
Serrano, who has worked as a journalist for publications such as ‘BuzzFeed’, ‘Vanity Fair’, ‘GQ’, ‘Harper’s Bazaar’, ‘Smoda’ and ‘Vogue’, now directs at El País. together with author Guillermo Alonso podcast Arsenico Caviarwho won with Ondas in the best discussion category. With ‘El Discontent’ he was chosen as the best writer at the ‘Vanity Fair’ Openbank Literature Awards.
He judgescreated for the first time that more women than men, it has been created by Juan Eslava Galán, José Manuel Blecua, Carmen Posadas, Belén López, Pere Gimferrer and newcomers Luz Gabás and Eva Giner, in place of those who died recently. Rosa Regas y Fernando Delgado. They selected the winner and finalist among 1,070 entries submitted for the award.
The Planetary Group, and more than 70 publications In addition to being a major shareholder of Atresmedia (Antena 3, La Sexta and Onda Cero) together with De Agostini and the newspaper ‘La Razón’, in addition to being the owner of 22 educational institutions, he did not only have reasons to celebrate. 75 years old. This has come together with encouraging figures: 2023 was “the best year in the history of the company”, raising its sales to 1,950 million, 8% more, Creuheras announced this Monday, and shares the entire competition for 2024 itself. is on track to break the record ceiling as it is “becoming the best year in the history of the publishing industry”, since January it has grown 11.7%. That’s where from 2019 to 2023 more than 35% have already done it.
