Alberto Olmos, First Prize David Gistau: "The posh on the left has everything but is not to blame"

"I was poor at one time and that is why I felt I had the authority to write the article. It happened when I finished my degree, I couldn't find a job and I found myself without a place to drop dead. I lived in Usera, in Almendrales and had a coffee in a The bar where they had

. And there he read Gistau. It was easy to empathize with him. There was that point of humor, deconsecration ... Gistau was the opposite of the man who was given a column and now he becomes the man of his plot. There was also the addiction to Umbral, in which he also recognized me. Even his novel about football, which I think was little read, was very good. "

Alberto Olmos never got to meet David Gistau in person but now his name opens the award that bears the name of the columnist, organized by Unidad Editorial and Vocento and failed this morning in Madrid.

The award, endowed with 20,000 euros, has chosen an article by Olmos,

, Things that the poor you should know: instructions for when you lose everything (published by

on May 13) among more than 400 candidates.

"I start writing an article on a Thursday and send it on Monday. I rewrite and rewrite, because rewriting is when the best sentences appear. I guess I work too hard on the texts. The problem is that I'm always late to the topics and I don't remember what was the trigger for the text, "explains Olmos.

In the case of

the moment Olmos began to write matters: May 2020, the moment in which the sanitary panic began to wane and the fear of the economic crisis took its place.

The text can be summarized with a simple idea: now that an incalculable crisis is coming, the desire of some to idealize and ennoble poverty is going to reveal a hateful game.

"The posh left-wing people are there. I guess it's a topic I come back to often. I've been obsessed with them since college."

Isn't it, deep down, what we all want to be?

Preppy and progressive?

"Of course because they have everything but they are not to blame. Live as an oppressor but exclude yourself from oppression. Sometimes I see Dutch or Belgian backpackers walking through Madrid looking raggedy. And I'm sorry but you can tell: they are playing at life pulled to be able to have your adventure. "

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