Marta Barrio has received the Tusquets Novel Prize for her book "Leña menuda"

The winner of the XVII edition, tells in her book the story of a young woman who carries her pregnancy with enthusiasm until she suffers a terrible incident.

Marta Barrio García-Agulló (New Haven, 1986) is an editor. She has a degree in Hispanic Philology and East Asian Studies from the Autonomous University of Madrid. Kerguelen's Wild Cats (2020), her first novel, was a finalist for the Silverio Cañada Memorial Award at Gijón's Black Week.

Read more here: El Mundo

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