The chain bookstore announces a literary award to celebrate the anniversary of an imitated model, which is committed to physical format and which today owns five stores with close to 75 workers.

The job of a bookseller is to "discover authors and works, and highlight them," among the myriad of those who are published; even more so in Spain. Or that's how Antonio Ramírez and Marta Ramoneda understand the trade, who on March 6th, 1996 created La Central, amid dark omens for betting on a world of books and paper that seemed to be disappearing.  Instead, today they are the model of a type of bookstores envied by half of Europe.

Sandra Ollo (Acantilado/Quaderns Crema), Sílvia Sesé (Anagrama), Rebeca González (Blackie Books), Luis Solano (Libros del Asteroide), Carlo Feltrinelli (President of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore) and Santiago Tobón (Sexto Piso), along with three members of the bookstore team, make up a kind of dream team of editors who will judge the works that are eligible for the award in Spanish.

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