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| The jury has chosen the best work from among the 79 works presented by publishers and authors from around the country | The jury of the XVII Setenil Prize, meeting today, Friday, November 6, has agreed to grant the award to Cristina Sánchez-Andrade, for her book El niño que ate lana, published by the Anagrama publishing house in Barcelona.
The jury, made up of Lola López Mondéjar, Francisca Noguerol, Vicente Cervera and Manuel Moyano, has chosen this work from among the 79 presented by publishers and authors from all over Spain, in an edition that, according to the Councilor for Culture of the Molina City Council de Segura, Soledad Nortes Navarro, "has maintained a high level of participation despite the circumstances arising from the COVID-19 pandemic." Promoted by the Department of Culture of the Molina de Segura City Council and known as the Oscar of the story, the Setenil Prize has a prize of 10,000 euros for the author of the winning book. The award-winning writer, Cristina Sánchez-Andrade (Santiago de Compostela, 1968), daughter of a Galician father and English mother, residing in Madrid, has a degree in Law and Information Sciences, combining writing with her work as an English translator.
He has written novels such as Bueyes y rosas dormían (2001), Ya no pisa la tierra tu rey (2003, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award at the Guadalajara International Book Fair), or Coco (2007), where he novels the life of Coco Chanel.
In 2010, she published El libro de Julieta, which reflects her daily life with her daughter with Down syndrome.
With Las Inviernas (2014), he was a finalist for the Herralde Novel Prize and became known on the international literary scene, being translated into English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Polish and Italian. The winning book of the XVII Setenil Prize, The boy who ate wool, is a good example of the lyrical style and content of Cristina Sánchez-Andrade, where realism drifts towards the anomalous and the truculent, although always under the sieve of an underground humor.
Set in deep Galicia, the character of this book is not only current, but universal and timeless.
Very well drawn characters serve the author to show human conflicts and often sordid attitudes, such as meanness, greed or distrust.
The boy who ate wool is a highly visual work, even physical, with its own atmosphere and a very marked personality, and in which the stories, although independent, are linked together by subtle threads that manage to form an integrated collection of stories. The winners of the previous editions of Setenil, considered one of the most important short story awards in the national literary scene, have been Alberto Méndez, Juan Pedro Aparicio, Cristina Fernández Cubas, Sergi Pàmies, Óscar Esquivias, Fernando Clemot, Francisco López Serrano, David Roas, Clara Obligado, Ignacio Ferrando, Javier Sáez de Ibarra, Emilio Gavilanes, Diego Sánchez Aguilar, Pedro Ugarte, José Ovejero and Elena Alonso Frayle.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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