‘The Illusionists’, by Marcos Giralt Torrente, wins the Francisco Umbral award | Culture | EUROtoday

The illusionists (Anagrama), by Marcos Giralt Torrente, received this Wednesday the Francisco Umbral 2025 award for the most effective e book of the 12 months. Awarded by the Foundation of the Valladolid author and columnist, the ruling introduced this Wednesday highlights that the award-winning work is “a masterful narrative about a time and a family that constitutes a cubist self-portrait from a singular and, at the same time, plural perspective.”

National Narrative Award in 2010 for life time, a e book of mourning by which Giralt Torrente reconstructed his relationship along with his father, the painter Juan Giralt, in The illusionists The writer undertakes a portrait of his maternal household. Based on the epistolary relationship between his grandfather, the novelist Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, and his first spouse, The illusionists It focuses on the lives of the 4 kids of that marriage. The portrait that Giralt Torrente makes of his relations rescues the tales and myths that maintain their lives. “Rarely is there a title for a work that reflects the content so accurately,” he provides within the minutes of the jury of the Francisco Umbral award, chaired by Manuel Llorente, and made up of the author and former minister César Antonio Molina, the critics Santos Sanz de Villanueva and Fernando R. Rodríguez Lafuente and the EL PAÍS journalist, Andrea Aguilar.

Endowed with 12,000 euros, borne by the Majadahonda City Council (the city the place Francisco Umbral lived and the place the regional library that bears his identify is situated), and a sculpture by Alberto Corazón, the award has gone in earlier editions to Rafael Chirbes for on the shoreMario Vargas Llosa by robust occasionsÁlvaro Pombo by Santander, 1936, and Pilar Adón for Of beasts and birds. Last 12 months the essay received Cross-fireby Fernando del Rey and Manuel Álvarez Tardío.