Luz Gabás, winner of the Planeta Novel Award 2022

Photography: Luz Gabás, Facebook profile.

light gabas has taken the Novel Planet Award 2022 granted last night in Barcelona. Endowed with an amount of 1 million euros, the largest number of literary prizes in the world, it is one of the most prestigious in Spanish literature. Gabás won with the novel titled Away from Louisiana. The finalist has been Cristina Campos, who comes from the world of cinema, with stories of married women, which has taken 200.000 euros.

One more year, the Planeta Prize has not been exempt from controversy since a few days before it was granted, a work finalist for being ya published. But let's take a look at the award-winning writers and their works.

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Luz Gabas, writer Aragonese, knows very well the success in literature for having a long career in it full of successes. In this case, the example of authors is repeated bestseller who win this award, as happened a few years ago with Santiago Posteguillo or last year with the controversial discovery of who was behind the pseudonym Carmen Mola.

Luz Gabás, graduate in English philology, dedicated a few years to politics, but is known mainly as a novelist from the great success she obtained with her first novel entitled Palm trees in the snow. This work was made into a film in an adaptation starring Mario Casas and Adriana Ugarte.

With his next novel, Back to your skin, Luz Gabás wrote about the persecution of witches in the XNUMXth century. She then she posted Clike fire on ice, a story about the carlist wars. And three years ago, with The heartbeat of the earth, changed register and delved into the black novel with unsolved crimes in between.

Away from Louisiana, his winning novel, is again a historical genre and is set in the southeastern United States in Louisiana. It takes place at the end of eighteenth century when the French colony that was Louisiana passed into the hands of the Spanish. The mix of languages ​​and cultures in addition to struggles in the countries that disputed their dominion made coexistence difficult, but that does not prevent there from being a love story between an indian and a french woman.

Cristina Campos

Cristina Campos from Barcelona and graduated in Humanities. She is director of casting and also the wife of film director Jaume Balagueró. Her first novel was the successful Lemon bread with poppy seeds, which has also been adapted to the cinema by Benito Zambrano.

stories of married women, his finalist work, is set in the present and recounts the stories of love and heartbreak of three co-workers. The protagonist is called Gabriela and is a married journalist whose marriage is apparently going well. But one day she meets a man who ends up being her lover, a topic that has served the writer to analyze the feelings of married women who are infidels.

Planet Award 2022

This year's gala at its 71th edition It was held at the National Art Museum of Catalonia and the prize was awarded at the stroke of midnight. Nearly 850 novels from around the world have been submitted, beating the participation record.

Source: Antena 3 News