As every year, the Planet Prize, the best financially gifted after the Nobel Prize for Literature, generates nerves, expectations and illusions.
We have just learned about the ten novels chosen as finalists among the 642 submitted to be eligible for Planet 2018.
Ten Finalists for the 2018 Planet Award
- The good byeby Sandra Glaser (pseudonym)
- Gender Violence, by Paulina Ayerza (pseudonym)
- Staring at a silent skyby Elena Francis (pseudonym)
- The riseby James Sussex (pseudonym)
- The Art of Fugueby Daniel Tordera
- The shade of the cherry treeby Ariane Onna (pseudonym)
- The losersby María Díez García
- Mate, from Hatshepsut (pseudonym)
- Ángelaby Leticia Conti Falcone
- The Black Widow's loverby Ray Collins (pseudonym)
And the winner?
The awarding of the Prize will take place on Monday, October 15 in Barcelona, during a literary dinner at the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya in which Actualidad Literatura will participate to be able to tell you about it..
The Prize Jury is made up of Alberto Blecua, Fernando Delgado, Juan Eslava Galán, Pere Gimferrer, Carmen Posadas, Rosa Regàs and Belén López, secretary with vote.