Everything there is to know about the Premio Planeta Award.

This award is one of the most important accolades in Spain, which is why it has such a high endowment, being second only to the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Among many of the awards given around the world to praise the best literary works, the Spanish Premio Planeta Award is one of the most recognized.  It is an accolade given on a yearly basis by Editorial Planeta Publishers and it's 69 years old.

The appeal of this award is the amount of money given to winners and finnalists, considered one of the highest-paid awards in the world and only second to the Nobel Prize for Literature.

How did it all begin?  The history of this award begins in 1952, and since then, this accolade has been closely linked to Planeta Publishers.  It was precisely its founder, José Manuel Lara Hernández, the one who created this award in the early 50s, establishing that it would be won by the best unpublished work in the novel category.

Lara created this award in order to promote Spanish writers, who at the time, winners received the amount of 40,000 Pesetas.

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