Paloma Sánchez Garnica, a writer from Madrid, has achieved one of the greatest achievements of her career by taking home the Planet Award 2024 thanks to his novel entitled Victoria. He had already been a finalist in 2021 with Last days in Berlin. Beatriz Serrano, writer and journalist of El País has been finalist with the work Fire in the throat, who takes home 200.000 euros.
With a million euros, the Planeta, the largest of all, places this author as one of the most relevant and popular voices of contemporary narrative in Spanish. And one more year It has not been exempt from controversy either for this choice, since it is a already established writerThe winning works will be published in November.
Paloma Sánchez Garnica
Born in Madrid, Sánchez Garnica has been passionate about writing since a very early age. Her work, truffled with hits, stands out for its careful prose and deep historical research, which has been deployed in different eras and settings, wrapped in plots of intrigue and emotion that have conquered critics and readers.
Among his most notable novels are:
- The soul of the stones (2010): Explores the relationship between humans and nature, and how inanimate objects can hold secrets and emotions.
- The three wounds (2012): A moving story about love, loss and overcoming, which shows us the fragility of the human heart.
- The sonata of silence (2014): Set in the post-war period, it tells the story of a woman struggling to find her place in a world under reconstruction.
- My memory is stronger than your forgetfulness (2016): Winner of the Fernando Lara Novel Prize, this novel explores the limits of memory and the impact of the past on the present.
- Sofia's suspicion (2019): A suspense story with intrigue and mystery in which nothing is what it seems.
- Last days in Berlin: finalist Of the prize Planet in 2021, takes us to the last days of the Second World War to tell a story of love and espionage.
- The legacy of memory: historical novel that analyzes the consequences of the Civil War and the importance of collective memory.
- Victoria: The winner of Planet 2024 is set during the Cold War and involves spies. It stars a young woman who finds herself involved in a dangerous mission in the midst of the division of Germany.
The Planeta Prize
The Planeta Prize is one of the most important literary awards in the Spanish-speaking world. Established in 1952 by the Planeta publishing house, it annually recognizes the best novel written in Spanish. Throughout its history, it has been awarded to great writers such as Camilo José Cela, Mario Vargas Llosa, Juan Goytisolo, Soledad Puértolas, Maruja Torres, Juan Marsé, Santiago Posteguillo, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Carmen Mola or Sonsoles Onega, among many others.