The Segovian writer Ricardo Gómez has won today, Thursday, the XXI Anaya Prize for Children's and Young Adult’s Literature for 'Los mapas del agua',
a novel with an environmental theme that invites us to "reflect on the existence of other cultures different from ours." The prize has a prize of 12,000 euros.
In Los mapas del agua, Ricardo Gómez introduces us to the N'Wone, or water-women, women who, as children, learn to hear everything, such as the fluttering of the wings of the White-peaked Crows or the whisper of an underground stream. A water woman should not only be able to hear the faintest sounds. She has to know the desert, and for that she must memorize the lines that connect some points to others and discover where the water is for the survival of her people.
