EL MUNDO writer and columnist
Andrés Trapiello
will receive the
Gold Medal from the City of Madrid
on May 15, the day of the San Isidro festival.
This has been decided unanimously by the Governing Board of the Consistory this Thursday, recognizing his work for the capital after the publication of his latest work, which is entitled
Madrid
, and for the hundreds of thousands of pages with which he has drawn the essence of this town throughout its trajectory.
Since last September, Trapiello has been part of the editorial staff of EL MUNDO.
He is the author of numerous novels, poetry, newspaper articles and essays, among which
El Rastro
stands out for the award of this distinction
, a tribute to one of the most emblematic and authentic places in Madrid, or his series of newspapers' El salon de the lost steps'.
The capital has been the protagonist of much of the work of the writer who, although born in Manzaneda de Torío (León), feels like the most from Madrid.
"I am an upstart. I am not from Madrid - I have lived there for 50 years - but I feel like a Madrilenian.
It is something that this city has, that even if you have been in it for five minutes, it makes you Madrid
, even though I have been 50 years. that is so nice for people, "he explained.
"I did not expect the award, although I am very excited," the writer told this newspaper after hearing the news from the vice mayor of the capital, Begoña Villacís.
Throughout his career, the writer has received the Plaza & Janés International Novel Prize (in 1992, for The Phantom Ship), the
Madrid Community Literature Prize
(2002), the Nadal (in 2003, for The perfect crime friends), the Miguel Delibes National Journalism Award (2005), the Julio Camba (2007), the Francisco Valdés (2009) and the Castilla y León Award for Literature (2010).
For the work
Madrid
, of which 10 editions have been sold in just six months, he has recently received
the Booksellers' Prize
, in the essay category.
Bottle and Carmena, Medal of Honor
On May 15, the City Council of the capital will also award the Medal of Honor to former mayors
Ana Botella and Manuela Carmena
.
Likewise, it will award the Gold Medal, in addition to Andrés Trapiello, to Gregorio Marañón and Bertrán de Lis (president of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Theater and academic of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando), to the singer Ramoncín and to the José María de Llanos, which offers the residents of Vallecas, El Pozo and Entrevías new possibilities for training, education, job placement and social participation.
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