The novelist and history professor from Barcelona Empar Fernández has won this Friday the Dashiell Hammett Prize awarded by the Semana Negra de Gijón to the best crime novel written in Spanish in 2023 with 'El miedo en el cuerpo' (Editorial Alrevés),
a work in which, according to the jury, she transmits anguish, pain and fear with a plurality of voices.
Fernández's novel deals with the helplessness of a 7-year-old autistic boy who gets lost in a park and whose search, led by Inspector Tedesco, leads to the discovery of a criminal plot of child trafficking.
The Rodolfo Walsh Award for the best non-fiction work of noir genre has been for Los de Bilbao nacen donde quieren (Alianza Editorial), by the Bilbao-born María Larrea, for its 'narrative originality and honesty and courage, telling in a raw way, without falling into the tearful, his family history'.
