In ‘Yo, mentira’ (Tránsito, 2021), the protagonist is a 40-year-old woman, with a child, husband, and job, who one day has her certainties broken.

The Sevillian writer Silvia Hidalgo is the winner of the XIX Tusquets Editores de Novela Prize, awarded in Barcelona by a jury chaired by the novelist Antonio Orejudo. The award-winning work has been described by the jury as "the dazzling psychological portrait of a woman faced with her contradictions and the maelstrom of modern life, a truthful and lacerating story about the experience of desire and passion;" about how she overcomes the 40s crisis, the anxiety about social success, the disenchantment of home life, the attraction for the forbidden.

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