The writer
Pilar Adón
(Madrid, 1971) has won the
Francisco Umbral Award
for Book of the Year for her work
De bestias y aves
, from the Galaxia Gutenberg publishing house.
The prize, endowed with 12,000 euros, is awarded by the Francisco Umbral Foundation to promote reading and culture and recognizes in this edition the best book written in Spanish and published between January 1 and December 31, 2022.
Among the winners on previous occasions are the books
Patria
, by Fernando Aramburu (2016);
Transition
, by Santos Juliá (2017);
South
, by Antonio Soler (2018);
Hard Times,
by Mario Vargas Llosa (2019),
Las maravillas
, by Elena Medel (2020);
and
Biting the tongue
by Darío Villanueva (2021).
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
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