A bookstore specialized in female authors removes Carmen Mola's books after discovering that they are written by three men

• Literature Coup d'état of the Planeta Prize: crown Carmen Mola and reveal her identity

The Madrid bookstore

, specialized in female writers, has removed from its shelves all copies of

novels

after discovering with the Planeta Prize award that the author's name is the pseudonym of three authors,

( Madrid, 1969),

(Lorca, 1975) and

(Alicante, 1962).

"Our contribution to jastag

, but it is more

cool

that the gentlemen do not occupy everything", is the phrase with which the bookstore has accompanied a video of Tik Tok in which it is seen how they remove all the books from the shelves of the bookstore. copies of the novels by

,

,

and

Nor will they have the book that has earned them the

,

.

Given the criticism received on social networks for its decision to

, the bookstore has written a comment calling for peace of mind to its followers: "As a bookstore that takes care of a specialized fund of authors, we know what it means to make decisions policies that inevitably attract patriarchal violence ... for us and for you, self-care is also blocking trolls and allowing us time offline. "

In the video you can see how the owner of the bookstore takes all of

novels

, puts them in a box and packs them back to the

publishing

.

The box is left at the door of the bookstore and the following message is written on the video: "Of the books registered in Spain in 2018 - the year in which

was published

- only 32% were written by women."

The

of this 70th edition, the first with

for the winner, ended with one of the best kept secrets in recent Spanish literature, the pseudonym

, behind which the holy trinity of screenwriters Jorge Díaz were hidden , Antonio Mercero and Agustín Martínez.

With screenwriting training - they are behind series such as

- and incipient writing careers, the three

, as Díaz pointed out at the press conference, who joked about the possibility of having lost friends in the process .

"For me, anonymity was something very comfortable but it also had something of a burning secret," acknowledged Mercero, who is also in charge of adapting the adventures of detective Elena Blanco that have made

famous for a television series

.

The winning novel of the

,

, is set in a city ravaged by a wave of crimes against girls from the poorest classes, and in this context, a journalist, a policeman and a girl try to unravel the secrets of such heinous murders.

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