The stage was set in the grandeur of the National Museum of Art of Catalonia in Barcelona. The night was filled with anticipation, as over a thousand guests;

political figures, journalists, writers, and literary enthusiasts gathered for the 72nd Planet Award ceremony. Among them was Sonsoles Onega, a journalist and author of profound skill and intellect, who was about to receive an honor that would etch her name in the annals of literary history.

Onega’s masterpiece, ‘The Daughters of the Maid’, had won her the prestigious Planet Award, a prize accompanied by a staggering one million euros. The novel, a riveting narrative of a Galician family’s journey through the first two-thirds of the 20th century, had captivated the jury. It wasn’t just the gripping plot that made the book stand out, but the portrayal of the family’s women who establish a canning empire in Galicia, thereby giving voice to the oft-overlooked women in business.

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