Carmen Domingo wins the Comillas Prize for the biography of Carmen Díez de Rivera | Culture | EUROtoday

Carmen Domingo has been acknowledged with the Comillas Prize for History, Biography and Memoirs for her e-book Loneliness was the worth the place it tells the story of Carmen Díez de Rivera (1942-1999), a key determine within the Spanish Transition. This was introduced this Friday morning by the jury composed of Miguel Ángel Aguilar, Jordi Amat, Isabel Burdiel, Mercedes Cabrera and Josep Maria Ventosa (representing Tusquets Editores).

The award-winning biography opinions the lifetime of Díez de Rivera, daughter of an aristocratic household linked to Francoism who advanced in the direction of progressive positions, taking a number one position on the trail to democracy from the completely different positions she held on the political scene of the 70s.

To write his textual content, Domingo gathered worthwhile data from documentary sources and conversations with pals and personalities who had a relationship with Díez. In the assertion saying the award they argue that “the author thoroughly exposes the exciting work in the shadows of a woman who led the Cabinet of Adolfo Suárez and was an almost daily confidant of King Juan Carlos I at crucial moments.” The biography additionally opinions unpublished elements of her life, the best way wherein she “wove alliances and consensus” within the years of the Transition or her work as a European parliamentarian in Brussels in her last years.

The jurors have devoted phrases of recognition to the work. Mercedes Cabrera assures that it’s “a biography that recovers with a new look, from today, what was said and written at the time about who was called ‘muse’ of the transition, an appellation that hid a firm, personally hard, continuous and committed political work.” Isabel Burdiel believes that it’s a biography that “refreshes, based on the life and political experience of an exceptional woman, what we know about the shared and almost ‘miraculous’ effort that made the Transition possible.” Jordi Amat acknowledges in Díez a “free woman, trained in the elite of Francoism and with the ability to dialogue with the men who led the change,” along with valuing Domingo’s work as “fascinating,” the place “the life of Carmen Díez de Rivera is finally told in detail.”

The award-winning Carmen Domingo (Barcelona, ​​1970), along with being a author, is a philologist and playwright, with a piece dedicated to feminism that mixes essay, biography, novel and theater. Throughout her profession she has devoted herself to learning and disseminating the historical past and expertise of girls in Spain. Other of his works are My pricey daughter Hildegart (2008) or the play They are solely ladies (2015). In 2022 she was acknowledged with the Good Journalism Practices Award from the Associació de Dones Periodistes.

In the earlier version of the Comillas Award, the winner was José Teruel with Carmen Martín Gaite. A biography. In 2024, Manuel Calderón was acknowledged for Until the final breathand in 2023 to Ian Gibson for A Carmen in Granada. Memoirs of a Dubliner.