“Today, Cristina Fernández Cubas (Arenys de Mar, Barcelona, 1945) won the 2016 National Award for Fiction given by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport for her work La habitación de Nona (Nona’s Room),....

in which the author “masterfully mixes the everyday and the fantastic to reflect the best qualities and vitality of the genre”. The jury believes that Fernández Cubas’ work, which also won the Critics Prize, sums up “the excellence of the short story.” “

Translation by The Spanish Bookstage 

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