The Aena Narrativa Award is born to acknowledge the very best e-book of the 12 months in Spanish with a million euros | Culture | EUROtoday

It is troublesome to assume that there’s a lack of literary prizes and awards in Spain; one may fairly conclude that this part is saturated. And but, this Thursday a brand new award was introduced in Madrid, the Aena Narrative Award, which goals to assist fill a spot and represents an actual earthquake within the sector. Maurici Lucena, president and CEO of Aena, accompanied by Rosa Montero, who’s the president of the jury for the brand new award, introduced that the prize is endowed with a million euros for the winner and 30,000 euros for the 5 finalists. In addition, the corporate will moreover make investments greater than one other million within the buy of copies of the titles chosen as finalists. The supply gala can be held on April 8 in Barcelona.

The new award is a recognition with a transatlantic vocation that was born underneath the motto “reading is flying”, and has as companions the Gabo Foundation and the Vargas Llosa Chair. At the UNED Library within the Lavapiés neighborhood, the UNED rector Ricardo Mairal welcomed us, highlighting the significance of selling the promotion of studying and creation.

Compared to the Booker Prize in English or the Goncourt Prize in French, the Spanish language, with practically 519 million native audio system, doesn’t have a prize of such status that distinguishes the e-book of the 12 months. More than 1,200 prizes are awarded yearly in Spain, the overwhelming majority for unpublished books, the very best paid ones promoted by main publishing labels (Planeta prize, Nadal prize, Alfaguara prize). There are additionally essential institutional awards that acknowledge a literary profession, such because the Cervantes award.

The bases of the brand new award set up that there can be “a first pre-selection phase in which the selected works will be determined and a second phase of the Award decision in which the finalists and the winner will be determined.” The identical textual content explains that every member of the preselection crew will select 10 works on which they are going to situation a person report – primarily based on “literary quality, originality and narrative treatment, cultural and commercial value and other favorable aspects” -, the place the titles seem so as and with a rating corresponding to every place. “The five works finally shortlisted will be those that add the most points in the total count,” he provides. The chosen titles can be made public.

The jury can be made up of a most of 12 professionals “of recognized prestige in the literary, editorial or academic field of the Spanish and Latin American cultural and literary universe. These people must have a consolidated career as writers, with awarded and translated works. In addition, they must have institutional and professional recognition, such as literary awards, previous participation as juries in other competitions and presence in literary festivals and other cultural forums,” the principles add.

“Aena will acquire a minimum of 5,000 copies of each of the finalist and winning works, with a maximum amount of €1,404,000, for donation to Aena workers and the city councils of the territories in which the company carries out its activity, for distribution in educational centers, libraries, cultural spaces or other points that the city councils themselves consider appropriate. The donation is subject to the administrative authorizations legally established. Likewise, the copies of the works to employees in Aena’s work centers in Spain”, learn the bases.

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