The essay ‘Crossfire’, Francisco Umbral award for ebook of the yr 2024 | Culture | EUROtoday

The historians Fernando del Rey and Manuel Álvarez Tardío have been awarded the 14th version of the Francisco Umbral award for the ebook of the yr 2024 for his or her work Cross-fire. The spring of 1936 (Gutenberg Galaxy). This essay, targeted on the Spanish Civil War and the occasions that occurred within the spring of 1936, simply after the February elections and the July coup in opposition to the Second Republic, has been highlighted by the jury for “the academic rigor and the wealth of documentation that underlies fluid and attractive prose.”

Both authors have a acknowledged joint profession within the area of historic analysis. In 2021 they printed Lives reduce brief. Stories of violence in Spain in 1936 (Gutenberg Galaxy) and in 2017 they coordinated Politics of hate. Violence and disaster in interwar democracies (Technos).

This prize, value 12,000 euros and accompanied by a sculpture designed by Alberto Corazón, is awarded yearly by the Francisco Umbral Foundation. The determination for this version was introduced this Wednesday on the Francisco Umbral municipal library in Majadahonda, headquarters of the inspiration, and was adopted by a majority, in keeping with María España, president of the establishment and widow of the author.

Created in 2009, the Umbral basis goals to protect and disseminate the writer’s literary and journalistic work, along with selling Spanish literature and the Spanish language. This award, considered one of its foremost initiatives, has awarded titles in earlier years reminiscent of Santander1936 by Álvaro Pombo (2023), Of beasts and birds by Pilar Adón (2022), o powerful instances by Mario Vargas Llosa (2019).