2018 Carmen Martín Gaite Award.
Francisco Tejedo Torrent is done with the third edition of the Carmen Martín Gaite Award and with a historical feminist novel.
The 73-year-old writer recreates in his work a fictional life of María de Zayas y Sotomayor, a Spanish writer from the first half of the XNUMXth century, a pioneer of feminism, whose life little or nothing is known.
Un composite jury by the writers Men Marias, Pilar Fraile, Ana Lena Rivera and a member of the board of the Editorial Traspiés, ruled in favor of the novel by Francisco Tejedo Torrent.
María de Zayas and Sotomayor.
The well-known work of María de Zayas is made up of Exemplary and loving novels (1637) Novels and saraos (1647) Second part of the Sarao and honest entertainments (1649) and Betrayal in friendship, of which some fragments are recreated in the winning work.
María de Zayas's literature was praised by his contemporary, Lope de Vega, in her work The Laurel of Apollo and taken as a feminist reference in the XNUMXth century by Emilia Pardo Bazán, among other writers of relevance in the history of literature.
The Carmen Martín Gaite award.
The deliberation of the Award, dedicated to keeping the spirit of Carmen Martín Gaite alive, was held in the Madrid town of The Boalo y it became official on the 22nd of this month of July, coinciding with the anniversary of the death of the writer in whose tribute the contest is held.
The picturesque town of the Madrid mountains, whose City Council organizes the literary contest, hosts the family home of Carmen Martin Gaite, today the home of the last representative of the family, his sister, Ana Martin Gaite, 93, and is the headquarters of the foundation that manages the cultural legacy of the famous writer.
The integrity of the Carmen Martín Gaite Prize is guaranteed with the presentation of all the authors under pseudonyms or literary pseudonym, guaranteeing in the process that the true name of the authors is not revealed until after deliberation.
The first and second editions of the Award went to Miguel Ángel Cáliz, with a novel about happiness entitled Happiness in Blister, and for Men Marías, with Pukata, Fish and Seafood, a hard and tender story about the life of immigrants in Spain.
The article intentionally omits that Miguel Ángel Cáliz is the founder and editor of the convening company, the Traspiés publishing house. Speaking of integrity.
Hello Estefanía: Thank you for your comment. It is always enriching to have more data. I found out about the award in the second edition when the writer who won invited me to accompany her in the presentation of her novel. Now, when they called me to be a jury, the people of the Boalo City Council were telling me the history of the award, why it was founded, why in the Boalo, the history of the Carmen Martín Gaite foundation, of the family etc ... and, From what I was told, in the first edition of the award, Traspiés publishing house was not the publishing house that published the winning novel. It was Ediciones Turpial. And they began to collaborate with Traspiés as a result of this man being the winner of the award. I don't know if this editorial has something to do with Ediciones Traspiés.