The presentation of the Nadal Prize marks the beginning of the literary season and the awards calendar
Manuel Vilas and Gemma Ventura received their trophies at the traditional Epiphany Eve held at the Palace Hotel in Barcelona on January 6, marking the start of the literary season and the awards calendar. On the verge of turning 80, Nadal has already found his festive and celebratory look this Friday. For the first time in three years, childbirth was celebrated without restrictions or masks. A proof of the strength of an award that will make history as a senior dean in the next edition.
A force that was also celebrated by the last three winners, Inés Martín Rodrigo, Najat El Hachmi and Ana Merino, together with authors such as Pere Gimferrer, Víctor del Árbol, Use Lahoz, Carme Riera, Borja de Riquer, Santiago Roncagliolo or Sergio Vila – San Juan.
The Dean of Spanish Literary Awards was established in 1944 in memory of the late journalist and editor Eugenio Nadal, who died shortly before. His mentors were Ignacio Agustí, Josep Vergés and Joan Teixidó, founders years before of the publishing label Destino, which has supported the prize ever since and later became part of the powerful Grupo Planeta.
Then endowed with 5,000 pesetas, on the night of January 6, 1945, during dinner at Café Suizo, guests tasted a menu based on cream of artichokes, sole and woodcock, with pears à la cardinal for dessert. The finalists on that occasion were Carmen Laforet – then a complete stranger – César González Ruano and José María Álvarez Blázquez. She is declared the winner of Nadal on the fourth ballot of ‘Nothing’ by Laforet. The kings had just delivered their first gift to Spanish literature.
He was the faithful thermometer of our contemporary letters for good and bad, during these nearly eight decades he added talents to his payroll, such as Miguel Delibes, Ana María Matute, Elena Quiroga, Carmen Martín Gaite, Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Alvaro Cunqueiro , Francisco Threshold, Fernando Arrabal, Manuel Vicent, Juan José Millás, Maruja Torres, Clara Sáchez, Felipe Benítez Reyes, Antonio Soler, Rosa Regàs, Ávaro Pombo, Gustavo Martín Garzo, Lorenzo Silva or Fernando Marías.
Source: La Verdad
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