These awards, endowed with 35,000 euros each, are the most important in the world in the field of children and young adult literature in Spanish.

The SM Foundation has presented the SM El Barco de Vapor Award for children’s literature to Mónica Rodríguez (Oviedo, 1969) for the book “Mas valiente que Napoleón,” and the SM Gran Angular Award for young adult literature to Patricia García-Rojo (Jaén, 1984). for “El Verano en que llegaron los lobos,” during a ceremony held at the Royal Post Office in Madrid. They received the award from the Secretary of State for Education of the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, José Manuel Bar Cendón, in the company of Rocío Albert López-Ibor, Deputy Minister of Educational Policy of the Community of Madrid and the president of SM, José Manuel Cidad.

During this award ceremony of the forty-fifth edition of the SM Foundation's El Barco de Vapor and Gran Angular Awards, Cidad highlighted that “Mas valiente que Napoleón and “El Verano en que llegaron los lobos” "two stories of great literary quality that address issues as important as diversity, friendship and perseverance, encourage us to take risks and get out of our comfort zone, but also to have the courage to remain, defending the importance of being true to oneself” at these times in which "we need courage to face challenges and good literature to build a better society."

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