EL MUNDO editor

Pedro Simón

has won the

Primavera de Novela Prize

, one of the most prestigious in the Spanish language.

The award granted by the Espasa (Planeta) and El Corte Inglés publishing houses "is intended to support literary creation and contribute to the maximum dissemination of the novel as a form of artistic expression of our time".

Pedro Simón (Madrid, 1971) has won with a novel entitled

Los ingratos

, the second of his career after

Danger of collapse.

Fernando Rodríguez Lafuente, member of the jury, has described the novel as a chronicle of the changes in Spanish society in the last 30 years "traversed by bursts of poetic language" in which "the life of the characters without sentimentality or softness" It's the difference.

Delibes, David Trueba, Fellini, Cinema Paradiso are the references that the jury used to describe 'Los ingratos'

The Primavera de Novela Prize has a prize of 100,000 euros for the winning work, which will be published exclusively by the Espasa publishing house.

Javier Moro, María Tena, Rosa Montero and Frenando Savater are some of the writers who appear in Primavera's record.

The

jury

for the Primavera Award, chaired by Carme Riera and made up of Antonio Soler, Gervasio Posadas, Fernando Rodríguez Lafuente and Ana Rosa Semprún (secretary with vote), made the ruling official this Friday during a press conference.

In this 2021 edition, a total of

1,543 originals

have been received for the Primavera de Novela Award

.

By continents, 693 papers from Europe and 835 from America, 5 from Asia, 4 from Oceania and 6 of unknown origin have been submitted.

Spain, which contributes 645 novels, tops the list of participants, followed by Argentina and Mexico, with 225 and 122 originals respectively.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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