The ABC writer and journalist pays tribute to the maternal figure on the centenary of Carmen Laforet's birth.

In 1944 Ignacio Agustí created the Eugenio Nadal Prize to reveal new literary values ??and chose the date of January 6 as a means to escape from the tyranny of the Christmas festivities: «The bourgeoisie comes to an end, fed up from stuffed turkey, family champagne, cheering noises from the kids, and gifts to the mother-in-law.  Crying, moaning, cheap shots, the sounds of children's trumpets, eagerly wanting to sever family ties,” he wrote in his memoirs.

We are in 2022. And another tyranny, that of the coronavirus, has prevented for the second consecutive year the social gatherings, the Christmas dinner, the roscón de Reyes and the tribute shared to the centenary of Carmen Laforet (Barcelona, ??1921 - Madrid, 2004), author of 'Nada', Nadal's inaugural novel 78 years ago.

In recent months, Ediciones Destino reported, "it has been on the best-selling book lists, accumulating in 2021 alone, more than 50,000 copies."

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