Lola Flores gains entrance to academy by means of a book. The book written by Alberto Romero Ferrer has won the Manuel Alvar Award for Humanistic Studies 2016

At the presentation ceremony of Lola Flores. Cultura popular. Memoria sentimental e historia del espectáculo (Lola Flores. Popular Culture. Sentimental Memory and History of Show (José Manuel Lara Foundation), the author was accompanied by Andrés Peláez, former director of the National Museum of Theater, who extolled Lola Flores’ talent explaining that “faced with Lola Flores, nobody in the world of flamenco ever agreed;” she was stupendous for some, but not so much for others, as reflected in the legend of the New York critic who supposedly wrote about her: “She can’t sing, she can’t dance –don’t miss her!” (A famous quote, by the way, which has never been authenticated, even though was supposedly published in the New York Times.) The 371-page book is divided in four sections, the first of which is dedicated to Lola Flores’ beginnings between 1923 and 1938. The second section is dedicated to her time as a singer and actress in the postwar theater (1939-1949). Then come the Fifties, with her travels to the American continent and her color movies (1950-1974), and finally the transition and the post-Franco era (1975-1995). This narrative structure was praised by the jury of the Manuel Alvar Award as "a sociological radiography of Spain.”

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