Madrid writer Clara Sánchez won the 600,001 Euros Planeta Prize

Madrid writer Clara Sánchez on Tuesday won the 66th edition of the Planeta Prize, which comes with 601,000 euros ($813,000) in cash, for her novel “El cielo ha vuelto.”

Sánchez had hidden her true identity by using the pen-name José Calvino and the fictitious title of her work was “La dama del hechizo,” while the runner-up for the prestigious literary award is scriptwriter and film-maker Angeles González Sinde, who also used a pseudonym - Salvador Durán - in writing his novel “El buen hijo.”

The winning novel focuses on a successful fashion model who discovers that the terrible revelation that a fortune teller made to her in the past is becoming reality: somebody wants her dead and is making her life a nightmare.

Read more at LATINO DAILY NEWS

Sign up to our newsletter: