The Madrid writer Roberto Corra is the winner of the 7th Edhasa Prize for Historical Narratives with the novel ‘Gala de Hispania.
Queen and slave’, a fictionalized biography of Gala Placidia, daughter of the Roman emperor Theodosius and wife of the Visigoth king Ataúlfo. In the words of the jury, the winning novel is "an agile, entertaining and documented story that reflects a time and the changing fortune, not only of the historical figure of Gala Placidia, but of everything that the Western Roman Empire had meant."
The winning book explains the story of Elia Gala Placidia, queen of the Goths and empress of Rome, "a very important character in the 5th century, who was the granddaughter, daughter, sister, wife and mother of emperors, who was 'nobilissima' from the moment she was born, who was also kidnapped, ended up being the wife and then widow of a Visigoth king," explained the author.
