The Argentine writer completes with 'El secreto de Marcial' the biographical work he opened with 'Mamá', his most celebrated book.
Marcial Fernández was a hard-working, stubborn and kind-hearted Asturian. He was also my father. Literature brought us apart and, in the end, brought us together again, Jorge Fernández Díaz (Buenos Aires, 1960), the Argentine writer and journalist who, coincidentally, has shared name and surname with that politician from Barcelona who claimed an angel named Marcelo whispered in his ear to help him park his four-wheel drive.
The fact is that Marcial -and not Marcelo; that would have been too much of a coincidence- was his father, and since January 6, he is also the protagonist of 'El secreto de Marcial', a biographical novel (or novelized biography, so much so) with which the author from Buenos Aires has given a pulse to his memory and has ended up winning the 81st Nadal Prize, worth 30,000 Euros.
