Juan Bonilla, National Narrative Award

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Juan Bonilla

has received the National Narrative Award, corresponding to 2020, for his work '

(Seix Barral).

The award, awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Sports, is endowed with 20,000 euros.

The jury has chosen this work "

, of rhythmic narrative tension, and for its analysis of the investigation as an act of exacerbated love".

"Under the pretext of recovering the figure of the Mexican artist and poet Nahui Olin, the author talks about

through a documentary fiction that blurs the boundaries between culture and life."

At the same time, the jury also highlighted "the literary approach to

and illuminating

is exemplary and constitutes, at the same time, a vindication of the avant-garde that runs through the writing itself throughout the entire work."

Juan Bonilla

is a journalist and regular contributor to EL MUNDO, among other media.

He is the author of the

'No one knows anyone' (1996), which was made into a film;

'Los príncipes nubios' (2003), with which he won the Short Library award and has been published in 10 languages,' Prohibido entre sin otros' (2013) for which he won the Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Prize, 'La novela del searcher of books' (2018) or 'Totality sexual del cosmos' (2019).

In addition, he has compiled his stories in the volumes 'The one that turns off the light' (1994), 'The Company of the lonely' (1998), 'The night of the Skylab' (2000) and 'The Marble Stadium' (2005) , 'Je me souviens' (2005), 'Based on real events' (2006), 'So many people alone' (2009) and 'A herd of wildebeest' (2013).

He has also written

as 'Parts of War' (1994);

the book of poems for children 'Multiply yourself by zero' (1996);

'El Belvedere' (2002), 'Empty mailbox' (Pre-Textos, 2006), 'Cháchara' (Renaissance, 2010) or 'Petty-bourgeois poems' (Renacimiento, 2016).

On the other hand, he has published the

'El arte del yo-yo' (1991), 'La holanda errante' (1992) and 'Variety theater' (2002);

'Academia Zarathustra' (1993), an unconventional travel book;

'The Costa del Sol in the pop era' (2007), an analysis of the origin of the tourist phenomenon in the area;

'Time is a pop dream: life and work of Terenci Moix' (2012) or 'Catalog of excessive, rare or dangerous books that Juan Bonilla has given to the press' (2012).

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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