The winning work of the writer and journalist focuses on the brief stories of people forgotten by the arrival of the Second Republic.

Yesterday, writer and journalist Paco Cerdà (37 years old, Valencia) has won the second edition of the Asteroid Books Non-Fiction Award with the project ’14 de abril’, a story about the arrival of the Second Republic, in 1931.  The book is a collection of stories of secondary characters, in different corners of the country, as well as "the plot of power and its most human face," according to the publisher's statement.

Cerdà emphasizes that there are “many human stories that were released from that time.”  On his day, he read ‘14 de julio’ (Tusquets, 2017), by Éric Vuillard, a portrait of the French Revolution.

Read the entire article here: El Pais