The writer from Cartagena, Raúl Quinto, has been awarded the Spanish National Fiction Prize for the year 2024, for his work “Martinete del rey sombra” (Jekyll & Jill), as proposed by the jury that met today.
The prize, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, is endowed with 30,000 euros.
The jury highlighted the author's work “for being a brilliant proposal that, standing on the border between genres, creates an original novel essay of historical interpretation. With a style rich in nuances, lavish in metaphors and magnificent descriptions, Raúl Quinto presents a vigorous portrait of the period in which he dissects in an accurate way the practices, conflicts and rites of the “State of the Ancien Régime and the attempt to exterminate a minority such as the gypsy people”.
