Marcos Giralt Torrente wins the Critics’ Prize with the novel ‘The Illusionists’ | Culture | EUROtoday

The Madrid author Marcos Giralt Torrente has received the Critics’ Prize this Saturday for The illusioniststhought of by the Spanish Association of Literary Critics as the very best narrative e-book revealed in 2025. The jury of those awards, which attain their seventieth version, has additionally awarded the remainder of the classes, with Pablo García Casado as the very best work of poetry in Spanish, Fernando Castro Paredes and Lorena Souto, in Galician; Amadeu Fabregat and Sebastià Alzamora, within the Catalan language; and Eider Rodríguez and Ane Zubeldia, within the Basque language, based on the ruling introduced this Saturday within the Salamanca municipality of Morille. In addition, they’ve awarded the very best international language e-book to The gardener and demise, by the Bulgarian author Gueorgui Gospodínov, revealed by Impedimenta, with a translation into Spanish by María Vútova; and in Edicions del Periscopi, translated into Catalan by Marc Casals.

Without a monetary award, this award is the one one awarded to works within the 4 official languages ​​in Spain by way of a jury, which on this version was made up of 21 impartial literary critics who work for varied media shops.

In the case of The illusionistsit was the Anagrama publishing home that revealed this biographical and household work by Giralt Torrente about his maternal grandparents: the additionally author Gonzalo Torrente Ballester and Josefina Malvido. The jury highlighted that this introspective work, by which the writer mixes actual and fictional occasions, demonstrates an “extraordinary lucidity in reflecting the complex family universe, while revealing his personal maturity and as a creator.” Marcos Giralt Torrente is the writer of different works comparable to Life timewith which he received the National Narrative Award; Paris y The pleased beings, inter alia.

In the poetry class, Pablo García Casado has received the prize with the work Each one is lots of people, revealed by the Visor publishing home and with which the jury has appreciated that it tries to provide voice to on a regular basis individuals inserted in networks of sociability – work, household – marked by precariousness and disaster. Likewise, the jury highlighted the “splendid management of tension carried out by the author in texts that rely on the format of the prose poem, sometimes close to the micro-story and the cinematographic sequence.”

Amadeu Fabregat has received the prize for narrative in Catalan with the work L’anell del nibelung, revealed by Proa and which has served to interrupt 4 many years of literary silence of this author who presents a chronicle of one other return, that of Professor Ernest Millet, protagonist of his work. The jury highlighted his “deliberately neutral language, stripped of local marks and refractory to any superficial roots,” with which Fabregat constructs a novel “of broad significance, which firmly demands the recognition that it deserves.” In the class of poetry in Catalan, Sebastiá Alzamora has received the prize for Augusta Room adopted by Mother Tongue, the place he proposes “a kind of psychogeography” with locations of reminiscence, within the phrases of the jury, till setting up a “necessary and timely” e-book.

The Knife Thrower is the work that has earned Fernando Castro Paredes ―Editorial Galaxia― the award for narrative in Galician, a thriller “delicious and hard at the same time” for the jury, who sees traces of Pessoa, Faulkner and Eça de Queirós, amongst different authors. In the case of the author Lorena Souto, the jury has awarded her assortment of poems in Galician Exfoliate from salivarevealed by Chan da Pólvora and which reveals, within the phrases of the jury, his literary maturity and his approach of inhabiting a rural surroundings in fixed change.

In the case of Eider Rodríguez, winner of the Basque narrative award, she received the award with the work It was all the identical gap ―It was all the identical gap―the place he captures his “extraordinary emotional depth,” within the phrases of the jury. There are six tales with which “he illuminates the intimate cracks of everyday life: couples in transformation, friendships that fray and vital crises that settle in silence,” the jury careworn. In the case of the poet Ane Zubeldia, the award comes for the work Againstedited by Susa and which represents a “dazzling irruption” for Basque poetry. Based on formal experimentation and sensory drive, the physique turns into a topic, the origin of language and the territory from which it’s written, based on the members of the jury.

The outcome was introduced at a press convention on the CEVMO cultural middle with the presence of the president of the Spanish Association of Literary Critics, Fernando Valls, the mayor of Morille, Manuel Ambrosio Sánchez and the Vice-Minister of Cultural Action of the Junta de Castilla y León, Mar Sancho, along with all of the members of the jury.