Editorial Planeta senses that are time thriller complaint and the powerful Mercian open market and has chosen as his award-winning flagship to a Mexican journalist and writer, Jorge Zepeda, a novel that follows the patterns of Nordic genre: Milena or the world's most beautiful femur, which do not miss the world of prostitution and the Ukrainian gangsters, with Marbella and Mexico as the setting for the plot.
Jorge Zepeda is also an author of the house. In Spain Destination published his debut novel, The corrupters, where money laundering, fees for public works, critical press control and influence peddling are added to the impunity of the white-collar criminal and institutional complicity . Born in Mazatlan, a town in Sinaloa, in 1952, is the newspaper El Universal and sinembargo.mx digital magazine. Economist, sociologist and political columnist, Day Seven magazine founded in Guadalajara, founded and directed the 21st Century (1991-1997) and Public day (1997-1999). He received the Maria Moors Cabot journalism prize in 1999, awarded by the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of Columbia. He was deputy editor of El Universal in 2000, and Editorial Director November 2008 to December 2010 His books, published sighing. Candidates of the flesh (2005), President (2006), Lords of Mexico, (2007), The, Instructions to survive Calderón and his government, President Elect (2007) and coordinator of The Untouchables (2008) . All of them in Metro-Mexico.The award has 601,000 euros to the winner and runner 150,250 for work.
The second prize went to another journalist, Pilar Eyre. The work is titled My favorite color is green, "a detective intrigue, that tells a story of love autumn by a middle-aged woman survivor of the gauche divine Barcelona who falls for a Frenchman." The novel chronicles the travails of the protagonist who is fascinated by a man who disappears without a trace. The absence becomes obsession and women begin an anxious search, from despair to hope, with an ending that the author does not want to reveal their cards and not calling them "amazing."
The Barcelona journalist has a long list of biographies, which highlights the Quico Sabaté, the anarchist who was a legend of the urban guerrilla against Franco and died in a shootout in 1960 after he wrote a series of biographies on women of the Spanish royal family, as the Solitude of the Queen Sofia life, 2012; María la Brava: The king's mother (Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies), 2010; Imperial Passion (about Eugenia de Montijo) or Ena. The novel, 2009 (Victoria Eugenia of Battenberg). His latest book is confidential Franco. Among the guests at the literary evening included the president of the Generalitat, Artur Mas, the Minister of Development, Ana Pastor; and Secretary of State for Culture, Jose Maria Lassalle, and numerous representatives from business, journalism and letters of Catalunya.
The gala, held at the Palau de Congresos de Barcelona, remained always the same ritual, created in 1952, when the prize money was 40,000 pesetas and held in Madrid (in Barcelona, then reigned Nadal Prize, sponsored by members magazine Destination). The formula has become the brand image of the editorial: the most striking provision in amount of those available in the country for a literary distinction, the invitation to participate in the prize to any outstanding figure without being suelan give absolute guarantees (now actively involved literary agents) and maintaining secret of who is elected until the day of delivery as one of the best kept secrets of the publishing house, under penalty of elimination and reverse the award. Guests attending the evening to know how it works and participate like a social game to guess who the winner is hiding under pseudonyms that the publisher distributes the list of finalists. The publisher has always recognized that invites authors to come forward, because you can not risk a shot with such a cool prize be deserted or no work that suits your requirements. This time the Nevado by pseudonyms were Eduardo Crimes of XY chromosome, which concealed the name of Jorge Zepeda, and was called Sébastien, alias transparent Coral Teide hiding Pilar Eyre. Since 1952 have been sold "41 million copies, an average of more than 600,000 copies, which I wish we could extend it to all books published," said Jose Manuel Lara. The jury is made up Blecua Alberto, Juan Eslava, Pere Gimferrer, Carmen Posadas, Rosa Regas, Emili Rosales and Fernando Delgado, replacing Angeles Caso.
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