The 60a Valencia Book Fair, which will take place on 24 April on April 4 of May, will distinguish with their awards Raquel Ricart, Manuel Vincent i Bibiana Collado. The Valencia Book Fair Awards have been awarded since the year 2019 in order to recognize the trajectory and the literary contribution, one in Valencian and another in Spanish, as well as emerging talent.
Raquel Ricart It is a prolific Valencian writer who has cultivated different literary genres, Always in Valencian, and has been recognized with numerous awards, such as the Andrómina de Narrative Prize for the novel The stripes of life (3I4, 2010), which also won the Valencian writers' critic prize. His last literary work, The God's finger,He has been recognized again with the Valencian Writers' Critics Award, l’any 2023. It is about, until now, of his richest and most complex novel, in which three narrative lines intertwine and mirrish with each other to give birth to a careless story of friendship, survival and forgiveness, deeply exciting.
Manuel Vincent is the award -winning prize for trajectory in Spanish. The renowned writer and journalist has already been distinguished with numerous literary and institutional awards, such as the Christmas Award, The Prize of the Valencian Letters or the High Distinction of the Generalitat. His novels Malvarrosa tram (Alfaguara,1994) i They are sea (Alfaguara,2005) have been adapted to cinema, with remarkable success. Vicent has recently published A particular story (Alfaguara, 2024), An autobiographical story that is also a story through the 20th century, in which reality and fiction are mixed.
Finally, Bibiana Collado will be recognized with the prize Emergent of the Valencia Book Fair. Collado published last year Beef chips (The Beautiful Warsaw, 2024), But she is also the author of other poems and the novel exhausted mares (Pepitas De Pumpkin, 2023). The awards They will be given within the framework of the Valencia Book Fair, On a date yet to be determined.
The Valencia Book Fair will open on Thursday 24 April 13. To the 17.00 The institutional walk will take place and then there will be the speeches and the official opening speech, that this year will be in charge of Carme Manuel.Manuel is Professor of English in the Department of English Philology and Germany at the University of Valencia. He taught from 1992 NORD AMERICAN LITERATURE CLASSES, Matter on which he has published and published numerous works.
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