70th Planeta Novel Prize Award Ceremony

BARCELONA, SPAIN - OCTOBER 15: The writer Carmen Mola, pseudonym of the writers Jorge Diaz, Agustin Martinez and Antonio Mercero, winner of the 70th edition of the Planeta Novel Prize, together with the finalist Pilar Sanchez-Garnica give a press conference after the award ceremony, at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, on 15 October 2021, in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). The Planeta Novel Prize was created in 1952 by Jose Manuel Lara, with the aim of promoting authors who write in Spanish. The prize is awarded to the author who has managed to convince the jury for his or her originality, attractiveness or for the emotion he or she transmits in his or her novel. The Planeta Novel Prize 2021 is currently endowed with 1,000,000 euros for the winning work and 200,000 euros for the runner-up. (Photo By Kike Rincon/Europa Press via Getty Images)