Encarnación Lemus López (Villafranca de los Barros, 1960) has been awarded the National History Prize of Spain, corresponding to the year 2023, for her work “Ellas.

Las estudiantes de la Residencia de Señoritas,” (Ediciones Cátedra, 2022), at the behest of the jury meeting today. The prize, awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Sports in Spain, is worth 30,000 euros.

The jury highlighted her work "for offering a new look at one of the key institutions in the incorporation of women into the process of social modernization in Spain."

Likewise, the jury highlighted that “Ellas. Las estudiantes de la Residencia de Señoritas,” is a choral biography, written with great elegance and with an original approach. A generational and socio-professional portrait of those Spanish women who led an authentic revolution. "Women who broke the mold, nurturing the first avant-garde of professions until then prohibited to women."

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