She just won the Nadal Prize with her first novel. He was a finalist for the Planeta Prize with “Alegria” (“Joy”), where he tells of their love story.

Manuel Vilas: His “complete undressing” that almost cost him the Planeta prize. Couples are leading the way in Spanish literature. There’s Luis García Montero (61), director of the Cervantes Institute, and Almudena Grandes (59), with the National Narrative Prize. And especially the marriage between Elvira Lindo (57) and Antonio Muñoz Molina (64).

He, a language scholar and 2013 winner of the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. She, an author of the successful children's saga Manolito Gafotas and a columnist for El País. Together, they have an apartment in New York and have earned the applause of literary circles, which has placed them in a literary elite status unattainable by other author couples in our country.

However, their reign seems to be in jeopardy. The concession of the Nadal Prize (which comes with an endowment of 18,000 euros) to Ana Merino (48) this week for her first novel, “El mapa de los afectos”, (The map of affections), has just finished up putting together the new hot lovers of Spanish literature: Ana herself and Manuel Vilas (57).

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