EL MUNDO editor Pedro Simón has won the Primavera de Novela Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in the Spanish language.

The award granted by the Espasa (Planeta) and El Corte Inglés publishing houses "is intended to support literary creation and to contribute to the spreading of the novel as a form of artistic expression of our time".

Pedro Simón (Madrid, 1971) has won with a novel entitled Los ingratos, the second of his career after Danger of collapse. Fernando Rodríguez Lafuente, a member of the jury, has described the novel as a chronicle of the changes in Spanish society in the last 30 years "pierced by bursts of poetic language" in which "the life of the characters without sentimentality or softness" is the difference. Delibes, David Trueba, Fellini, Cinema Paradiso are the references that the jury used to describe Los ingratos.

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