The longest-running award in Spanish literature, won last year by César Pérez Gellida, reaches its 81st edition with five finalists and an evening that will celebrate the centenary of the author of 'Primera memoria'.
The 81st Nadal Novel Prize and the 57th Josep Pla Prize for narrative in Catalan will be awarded this Monday in Barcelona in a literary evening marked by the centenary of the birth of Ana María Matute, a “fundamental” name in the history of the publishing house Destino and of Spanish literature in the last century.
Matute won the Nadal in 1959 with 'Primera memoria', a novel narrated as the memoirs of a 14-year-old teenager that became a portrait of her generation.
