The Board of Directors of the Madrid Publishers Association has awarded the Antonio de Sancha Prize 2023 in its 27th edition, to Lorenzo Silva.

With this award, the Association recognizes "the quality and popularity of his books and journalistic articles, as well as the constant defense of the rights of authors and publishers in our country and outside our borders."

For the jury, «Lorenzo Silva not only finds exciting stories, but he masterfully constructs and defines them as a set of actions and circumstances that, in addition to giving meaning and rhythm to the narrative, never ignore the first and ultimate motivations that move the characters in the stories.»

After learning the Antonio de Sancha's ruling, Lorenzo Silva thanked the editors for this recognition and recalled the words of Bennett Cerf, founder of Random House, who in his memoirs wished as an epitaph that it could be said that "he left people a little happier than they were when he walked into the room.” "After more than half a century of life and four decades of writing, it seems to me to be the most reasonable of resolutions," said Silva, who has assured that if he has had any opportunity to achieve it "it has been thanks to generous and bold editors who believed in my work.”

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