Aena has announced that the five finalists for books and writers for the first call for the new Aena Prize for Hispano-American Story – which will be endowed with one million euros – are Héctor Abad Faciolince with Here and there (Alphagur); Nona Fernandez Lt Marciano (Random House); Marcos Giralt Torrente s Illusionists (Anagram); Samantha Schweblin Lt Good bad (Seix Barral) and Enrique Vila-Matas s The dark canon of the camera (Seix Barral)
So much so that the ganador receives it 1 million euros, As well as the four finalists, they will receive an award. In the case of the last four, they will be awarded 30,000 euros each.
The gala will be announced and will take place at a gala on April 8 in Barcelona, and Aena members for the project include Fundación Gabo and Cátedra Vargas Llosa.
The five finalists were announced by the president of the jury Rosa Montero, the secretary of the jury Jesús García Calero and scouts Nuria Azancot and Antonio Martínez Asensio.
Montero precisely ensured that he had “very little time” to propose the finalists they wanted to publish in 2025 in Spanish, to later defend that the galardón “is no longer happy for the sector, editorials, writers and readers”.
“If you don’t put a million (prize) here, not one of you will be awarded. In fact, the million that will do it is to put this prize in a high place from the beginning and now you have to be a prize at the height of a million and that’s it,” the author added.
The Galardón thus recognizes works of fiction written in Spanish or official Spanish languages translated into Spanish that will be published in 2025. Sean wrote or wrote the originals, “will be valued for their literary quality, originality and cultural contribution”.
The literary darling with the biggest economic background in Spain has now become the Planeta prize, where the winner received one million euros, while the runner-up received 200,000 euros.
Furthermore, the Premio Alfaguara de Novel is subsidized with an amount of approximately 165,000 euros and the Premio de Literatura en Lengua Castellana “Miguel de Cervantes”, awarded by the Ministerio de Cultura, with an amount of 125,000 euros.
The jury consists of, among others, Montero, Pilar Adón, Luis Alberto de Cuenca, Jorge Fernández Díaz, Leila Guerriero, José Carlos Llop and Elmer Mendoza.
Once the winner and finalist are revealed on April 8, Aena will proceed to distribute samples of the award-winning works to Aena employees and helpers in the territories the company works for, which are divided into educational centers, libraries, cultural spaces and other points.
Indeed, for each finalist entry, Aena will receive more than 5,000 examples, so the total price will be approximately 2.5 million euros.
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