Premio Planeta
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The Premio Planeta de Novela is a Spanish literary prize
, awarded since 1952 by the Spanish publisher Grupo Planeta to an original novel written in Spanish (Castilian
). It is one of about 16 literary prizes given by Planeta.
Financially, it is the second most valuable literary award in the world after the Nobel Prize for Literature with the winner receiving €601,000. In terms of a single book prize, it is the most valuable in the world. It was created by José Manuel Lara Hernández in 1952 and is awarded on 15 October, St Teresa
's day, Teresa being the name of Lara's wife.
Since 1974 there has also been an award to the runner up, which now stands at €150,000.
and Ernesto Sábato
, both Planeta authors.
In 2005, an Argentinian court fined Planeta 10,000 peso
s after finding that there had been fraud in awarding the Argentinian version of the prize to Ricardo Piglia
in 1997.
While the manuscripts are presented under a pseudonym, it is not unusual for the names of the winners to be leaked days or weeks before the official announcement.
Literary award
A literary award is an award presented to an author who has written a particularly lauded piece or body of work. There are awards for forms of writing ranging from poetry to novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing . There are also awards...
, awarded since 1952 by the Spanish publisher Grupo Planeta to an original novel written in Spanish (Castilian
Castilian Spanish
Castilian Spanish is a term related to the Spanish language, but its exact meaning can vary even in that language. In English Castilian Spanish usually refers to the variety of European Spanish spoken in north and central Spain or as the language standard for radio and TV speakers...
). It is one of about 16 literary prizes given by Planeta.
Financially, it is the second most valuable literary award in the world after the Nobel Prize for Literature with the winner receiving €601,000. In terms of a single book prize, it is the most valuable in the world. It was created by José Manuel Lara Hernández in 1952 and is awarded on 15 October, St Teresa
Teresa of Ávila
Saint Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, was a prominent Spanish mystic, Roman Catholic saint, Carmelite nun, and writer of the Counter Reformation, and theologian of contemplative life through mental prayer...
's day, Teresa being the name of Lara's wife.
Since 1974 there has also been an award to the runner up, which now stands at €150,000.
Criticism
In recent years its credibility has been called into question, with the first prize often awarded to authors published by Planeta, and the second to less known authors. The award has been declined by Miguel DelibesMiguel Delibes
Miguel Delibes Setién was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor. From 1975 until his death, he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, where he occupied chair "e". He studied commerce and law and began his career as a columnist and later journalist at the El Norte de Castilla...
and Ernesto Sábato
Ernesto Sabato
Ernesto Sabato , was an Argentine writer, painter and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary world throughout Latin America"...
, both Planeta authors.
In 2005, an Argentinian court fined Planeta 10,000 peso
Peso
The word peso was the name of a coin that originated in Spain and became of immense importance internationally...
s after finding that there had been fraud in awarding the Argentinian version of the prize to Ricardo Piglia
Ricardo Piglia
Ricardo Piglia is one of the foremost contemporary Argentine writers, known for his fiction, including several collections of short stories; the novels Artificial Respiration , The Absent City , Burnt Money ; and criticism including Criticism and Fiction , Brief Forms and...
in 1997.
While the manuscripts are presented under a pseudonym, it is not unusual for the names of the winners to be leaked days or weeks before the official announcement.
List of winners
Winners listed first, followed by runners up:- 2011 - El imperio eres tú (Javier Moro)
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- Tiempo de arena (Inma Chacón)
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- 2010 - Riña de gatos. Madrid, 1936, (Eduardo MendozaEduardo Mendoza CeballosEduardo Mendoza Garriga is a Spanish novelist.Born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, he studied law in the first half of the 1960s and lived in New York between 1973 and 1982, working as interpreter for the United Nations....
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- El tiempo mientras tanto, (Carmen Amoragas)
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- 2009 - Contra el viento (Ángeles CasoÁngeles CasoÁngeles Caso is a Spanish journalist, translator and writer.Her father, José Miguel Caso González, was a professor and Chancellor at the University of Oviedo Faculty of Philology....
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- La bailarina y el inglés (Emilio Calderón)
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- 2008 - La hermandad de la buena suerte (Fernando SavaterFernando SavaterFernando Fernández-Savater Martín is one of Spain's most popular living philosophers, as well as an essayist and celebrated author....
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- Muerte entre poetas (Ángela VallveyÁngela VallveyÁngela Vallvey Arévalo is a Spanish writer.She studied Modern History at University of Granada, and she later took some courses of anthropology and philosophy....
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- Muerte entre poetas (Ángela Vallvey
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- 2007 - El Mundo (Juan José MillásJuan José MillásJuan José Millás is a Spanish writer and winner of the 1990 Premio Nadal. He was born in Valencia and has spent most of his life in Madrid where he studied Philosophy and Literature in the Universidad Complutense.-Life:...
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- Villa Diamante (Boris IzaguirreBoris IzaguirreBoris Rodolfo Izaguirre Lobo is a Venezuelan-Spanish screenwriter, journalist, writer and showman.Izaguirre wrote the scripts of some of the Venezuelan telenovelas: Rubí and La dama de Rosa. After their success in Spain, he went to live in Santiago de Compostela.In Spain, Izaguirre started to...
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- Villa Diamante (Boris Izaguirre
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- 2006 - La Fortuna de Matilda Turpin (Álvaro PomboÁlvaro PomboÁlvaro Pombo García de los Ríos is a Spanish poet, novelist, and activist.Born in Santander, Cantabria, he studied at the Complutense University of Madrid and received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he lived between 1966 and 1977...
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- En tiempo de prodigios (Marta Rivera de la CruzMarta Rivera de la Cruz-Biography:Rivera de la Cruz was born into a family of well-known journalists. At the age of 18 she moved to Madrid, where she earned a bachelor of science degree in information with a specialty in political communication from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She spent a quarter studying at...
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- En tiempo de prodigios (Marta Rivera de la Cruz
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- 2005 - Pasiones Romanas (Maria de la Pau JanerMaria de la Pau JanerMaria de la Pau Janer is a writer from Spain who works in Spanish and Catalan. Her father, Gabriel Janer Manila, is also a well-known writer.She got her PhD degree at the University of the Balearic Islands...
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- Y de repente un ángel (Jaime BaylyJaime BaylyJaime Bayly Letts is a Peruvian writer, journalist and television personality. He is the third of 10 children and is known as "el niño terrible" .-Early life:...
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- Y de repente un ángel (Jaime Bayly
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- 2004 - Un milagro en equilibrio (Lucía EtxebarriaLucía EtxebarríaLucía Etxebarría de Asteinza is a Spanish writer. She was born in Valencia in 1966, of Basque parents as her name suggests, the youngest of seven children. The Basque surname Etxebarria has no diacritics, although its Spanish version Echevarría has...
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- La vida en el abismo (Ferran Torrent)
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- 2003 - El baile de la Victoria (Antonio SkármetaAntonio SkármetaAntonio Skármeta is a Chilean writer, born November 7, 1940 in Antofagasta, Chile. He was born to Croatian immigrants from the Adriatic island of Brač, region of Dalmatia....
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- El amante albanés (Susana Fortes)
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- 2002 - El huerto de mi amada (Alfredo Bryce Echenique)
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- Las mujeres que hay en mí (Maria de la Pau JanerMaria de la Pau JanerMaria de la Pau Janer is a writer from Spain who works in Spanish and Catalan. Her father, Gabriel Janer Manila, is also a well-known writer.She got her PhD degree at the University of the Balearic Islands...
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- Las mujeres que hay en mí (Maria de la Pau Janer
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- 2001 - La canción de Dorotea (Rosa RegàsRosa RegàsRosa Regàs is a Spanish writer and novelist.-Biography:Rosa Regàs was born in Barcelona in 1933. During the Spanish Civil War she was exiled to France, until it ended when she was 6 years old. She was educated at a religious boarding school in Barcelona...
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- Lo que está en mi corazón (Marcela SerranoMarcela SerranoMarcela Serrano is an award-winning Chilean novelist. In 1994, her first novel won the Literary Prize in Santiago, and her second book won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for women writers in Spanish...
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- Lo que está en mi corazón (Marcela Serrano
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- 2000 - Mientras vivimos (Maruja TorresMaruja TorresMaria Dolors Torres Manzanera known as Maruja Torres is a Spanish writer and journalist.Her parents were from Murcia and she was born in El Raval neighbourhood. She started as a journalist thanks to Carmen Kurtz when she was 21 years old...
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- Cuaderno de viaje (Salvador Compán)
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- 1999 - Melocotones helados (Espido FreireEspido FreireMaría Laura Espido Freire is a writer born in Bilbao, Spain on July 16, 1974.- Biography :Espido Freire dedicated her early years to the study and performance of classical music...
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- El egoísta (Nativel Preciado)
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- 1998 - Pequeñas infamias (Carmen PosadasCarmen PosadasCarmen Posadas is a prize-winning Uruguayan author of books for children. She also writes for film and television.- Life :...
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- Pura vida (José María Mendiluce)
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- 1997 - La tempestad (Juan Manuel de Prada)
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- Mi corazón que baila con espigas (Carmen Rigalt)
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- 1996 - El desencuentro (Fernando SchwartzFernando SchwartzFernando Schwartz is a Spanish writer.As the son of diplomats and a diplomat for 25 years he has lived in several countries. He was Spanish Ambassador in Kuwait and the Netherlands and spokesman of foreign policy until 1988....
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- Te di la vida entera (Zoé ValdésZoé ValdésZoé Valdés is a Cuban writer.She studied in the Instituto Superior Pedagógico Enrique José Varona, but never graduated. From 1984 to 1988, she worked at the Delegación de Cuba in UNESCO in Paris, and in the Oficina Cultural de la Misión de Cuba in Paris. From 1990 to 1995, she was an editor of the...
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- Te di la vida entera (Zoé Valdés
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- 1995 - La mirada del otro (Fernando G. Delgado)
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- La fuente de la vida (Lourdes Ortiz)
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- 1994 - La cruz de San Andrés (Camilo José CelaCamilo José CelaCamilo José Cela y Trulock, 1st Marquis of Iria Flavia was a Spanish novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Literature "for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability".-Biography:Cela published his...
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- El peso de las sombras (Ángeles CasoÁngeles CasoÁngeles Caso is a Spanish journalist, translator and writer.Her father, José Miguel Caso González, was a professor and Chancellor at the University of Oviedo Faculty of Philology....
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- El peso de las sombras (Ángeles Caso
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- 1993 - Lituma en los Andes (Mario Vargas LlosaMario Vargas LlosaJorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian-Spanish writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading authors of his generation...
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- El jardín de las dudas (Fernando SavaterFernando SavaterFernando Fernández-Savater Martín is one of Spain's most popular living philosophers, as well as an essayist and celebrated author....
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- El jardín de las dudas (Fernando Savater
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- 1992 - La prueba del laberinto (Fernando Sánchez Dragó)
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- La cruz de Santiago (Eduardo Chamorro)
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- 1991 - El jinete polaco (Antonio Muñoz MolinaAntonio Muñoz MolinaAntonio Muñoz Molina is a Spanish writer and, since 8 June 1995, a full member of the Royal Spanish Academy. He currently resides in New York City, United States...
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- Los espejos paralelos (Néstor Luján)
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- 1990 - El manuscrito carmesí (Antonio GalaAntonio GalaAntonio Gala Velasco is a Spanish poet, playwright, novelist and writer.Gala was born in Brazatortas, Ciudad Real , although he moved very soon to Córdoba and is widely considered an Andalusian....
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- El camino del corazón (Fernando Sánchez Dragó)
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- 1989 - Queda la noche (Soledad PuértolasSoledad PuértolasSoledad Puértolas Villanueva is a Spanish writer, and on 28 January 2010 was named an inmortal or member of the Real Academia Española.-Biography:...
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- Las hogueras del rey (Pedro Casals)
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- 1988 - Filomeno, a mi pesar (Gonzalo Torrente BallesterGonzalo Torrente BallesterGonzalo Torrente Ballester was a Spanish Galician writer in Spanish language. He was born in Serantes, Ferrol, Galicia, and received his first education there, subsequently attending the universities of Santiago de Compostela and Oviedo.Although primarily a novelist, he also published journalism,...
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- El triángulo. Alumna de la libertad (Ricardo de la Cierva)
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- 1987 - En busca del Unicornio (Juan Eslava Galán)
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- El mal amor (Fernando Fernán GómezFernando Fernán GómezFernando Fernán-Gómez was a Spanish actor and director. He was born in Lima, Peru as his mother, Spanish actress Carola Fernán-Gómez, was making a tour of Latin America. Inheriting his surname as a stage name, he moved to Spain in 1924.After the Spanish Civil War he began a study of Law but...
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- El mal amor (Fernando Fernán Gómez
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- 1986 - No digas que fue un sueño (Terenci MoixTerenci MoixTerenci Moix was a Spanish Catalan writer who wrote in Spanish and in Catalan. He is also the brother of poet/novelist Anna Maria Moix....
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- La jeringuilla (Pedro Casals)
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- 1985 - Yo, el rey (Juan Antonio Vallejo-Nágera)
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- Pío XII, la escolta mora y un general sin un ojo (Francisco UmbralFrancisco UmbralFrancisco Umbral was a Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist.-Style:...
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- Pío XII, la escolta mora y un general sin un ojo (Francisco Umbral
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- 1984 - Crónica sentimental en rojo (Francisco González Ledesma)
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- La guerra del Wolfram (Raúl Guerra Garrido)
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- 1983 - La guerra del general Escobar (José Luis OlaizolaJosé Luis OlaizolaJose Luis Olaizola is a writer.Born in San Sebastián, Spain in 1927, he was a lawyer for 15 years, until he found his vocation in writing. He has written novels such as La guerra del general Escobar which received the Premio Planeta of 1983...
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- La canción del pirata (Fernando Quiñones)
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- 1982 - Jaque a la Dama (Jesús Fernández Santos)
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- La conspiración del Golfo (Fernando SchwartzFernando SchwartzFernando Schwartz is a Spanish writer.As the son of diplomats and a diplomat for 25 years he has lived in several countries. He was Spanish Ambassador in Kuwait and the Netherlands and spokesman of foreign policy until 1988....
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- La conspiración del Golfo (Fernando Schwartz
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- 1981 - Y Dios en la última playa (Cristóbal Zaragoza)
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- Llegará tarde a Hendaya (José María del Val)
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- 1980 - Volavérunt (Antonio Larreta)
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- El aire de un crimen (Juan BenetJuan Benet-Early life:Benet was born in Madrid. At the start of the Spanish Civil War, his father died, and he left for San Sebastian with his family to find refuge. They stayed there until 1939, when they returned to the capital. In 1944, he completed his high school education and in 1948 he entered into...
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- El aire de un crimen (Juan Benet
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- 1979 - Los mares del Sur (Manuel Vázquez MontalbánManuel Vázquez MontalbánManuel Vázquez Montalbán was a prolific Spanish writer: journalist, novelist, poet, essayist, anthologue, prologist, humourist, critic, as well as a gastronome and a FC Barcelona supporter....
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- Las mil noches de Hortensia Romero (Fernando Quiñones)
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- 1978 - La muchacha de las bragas de oro (Juan MarséJuan MarséJuan Marsé is a Spanish novelist, journalist and screenwriter, born in Barcelona on January 8, 1933 as Juan Faneca Roca.His mother died in childbirth, and he was soon adopted by the Marsé family. At age 14 he started to publish some of his writings in Insula magazine and in a cinema magazine while...
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- Los invitados (Alfonso Grosso)
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- 1977 - Autobiografía de Federico Sánchez (Jorge SemprúnJorge SemprúnJorge Semprún Maura was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French. From 1953 to 1962, during the era of Francisco Franco, Semprún lived clandestinely in Spain working as an organizer for the exiled Communist Party of Spain, but was expelled...
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- Divorcio para una virgen rota (Ángel Palomino)
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- 1976 - En el día de hoy (Jesús Torbado)
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- La buena muerte (Alfonso Grosso)
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- 1975 - La gangrena (Mercedes Salisachs)
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- El pájaro africano (Víctor AlbaVíctor AlbaVíctor Alba was a Spanish politician, journalist, writer and university professor.Alba started his career as a political journalist at a young age. Affiliated with the Bloque Obrero y Campesino, he later worked for the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification . During the Spanish Civil War, he was...
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- El pájaro africano (Víctor Alba
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- 1974 - Icaria, Icaria... (Xavier Benguerel)
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- Gran café (Pedro de Lorenzo)
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- 1973 - Azaña (Carlos RojasCarlos RojasCarlos Rodolfo Rojas Rojas is a Chilean football midfielder who played for Chile in the 1950 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Unión Española.-External links:*...
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- Adagio confidencial (Mercedes Salisachs)
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- 1972 - La cárcel (Jesús Zárate)
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- El sitio de nadie (Hilda Perera)
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- 1971 - Condenados a vivir (José María GironellaJosé María GironellaJosé María Gironella Pous was a Catalan and Spanish author best known for his fictional work The Cypresses Believe in God published in Spain in 1953, and translated into English by Harriet De Onís in 1955...
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- Seno Ramiro Pinilla
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- 1970 - La cruz invertida (Marcos AguinisMarcos AguinisMarcos Aguinis is an Argentine psychiatrist, writer and columnist.- Background :Marcos Aguinis was born in Córdoba, Argentina, in 1935 the son of a Romanian Jewish immigrant...
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- Retrato de una bruja (Luis de Castresana)
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- 1969 - En la vida de Ignacio Morel (Ramón J. Sender)
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- Redoble por rancas (Manuel ScorzaManuel ScorzaManuel Scorza was an important Peruvian novelist, poet, and political activist, exiled under the regime of Manuel Odría. He was born in Lima....
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- Redoble por rancas (Manuel Scorza
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- 1968 - Con la noche a cuestas (Manuel Ferrand)
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- No hay aceras (Pedro Entenza)
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- 1967 - Las últimas banderas (Ángel María de Lera)
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- Tiempo de morir (Eugenio Juan Zappietro)
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- 1966 - A tientas y a ciegas (Marta Portal)
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- Stress (Santiago Moncada)
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- 1965 - Equipaje de amor para la tierra (Rodrigo Rubio)
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- Spanish Show (Julio Manegat)
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- 1964 - Las hogueras (Concha Alós)
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- El adúltero y el dios (Vizarco)
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- 1963 - El cacique (Luis RomeroLuis RomeroLuis Alberto Romero is a former Uruguayan footballer currently played for clubs of Uruguay, Peru and Italy....
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- El santo y el demonio (Víctor Chamorro)
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- 1962 - Se enciende y apaga una luz (Ángel Vázquez)
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- El pozo de los monos (Juan Antonio Usera)
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- 1961 - La mujer de otro (Torcuato Luca de Tena)
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- La oración del diablo (Andrés Avelino Artís)
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- 1960 - El atentado (Tomás Salvador)
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- El borrador (Manuel San Martín)
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- 1959 - La noche (Andrés Bosch)
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- El grito de la paloma (José María Castillo)
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- 1958 - Pasos sin huellas (Fernando Bermúdez de Castro)
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- La ciudad amarilla (Julio Manegat)
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- 1957 - La paz empieza nunca (Emilio Romero (escritor español))
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- Siete puertas (Elisa Brufal)
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- 1956 - El desconocido (Carmen KurtzCarmen KurtzCarmen Kurtz was a Catalan writer, who wrote under the name of her husband, Pedro Kurtz, in Spanish...
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- A fuego lento (Raúl Grien)
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- 1955 - Tres pisadas de hombre (Antonio Prieto)
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- Carretera intermedia (Mercedes Salisachs)
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- 1954 - Pequeño teatro (Ana María MatuteAna María MatuteAna María Matute is an internationally acclaimed Spanish author. She is one of the strongest voices from the posguerra, or period immediately following the Spanish Civil War...
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- El fulgor y la sangre (Ignacio AldecoaIgnacio AldecoaIgnacio Aldecoa was a Spanish author.-Biography:José Ignacio de Aldecoa was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz on 24 July 1925, the first child of Simón de Aldecoa and Carmen Isasi. He had a sister called María Teresa, born in 1927...
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- El fulgor y la sangre (Ignacio Aldecoa
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- 1953 - Una casa con goteras (Santiago Lorén)
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- Otros son los caminos (Antonio Ortiz Muñoz)
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- 1952 - En la noche no hay caminos (Juan José Mira)
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- Tierra de promisión (Severino Fernández)
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