The Lorca-born writer, Inma Pelegrín, has won the Lumen Novel Prize 2025 with ‘Fosca,’ a rural thriller, which the jury described as a 'discovery'
The Lumen Prize is endowed with 30,000 euros and the publication of the work throughout the Spanish-speaking world.
The jury, made up of the writers Ángeles González-Sinde, Elena Medel and Clara Obligado; the director of the Rafael Alberti bookstore, Lola Larumbe, and the literary director of Lumen, María Fasce, highlighted that language "is just another character in this novel of initiation with elements of a rural thriller and echoes that range from Ana María Matute to Jesús Carrasco. A story that can be read with the senses and the heart".
‘Fosca’ is Pelegrín's first novel, a “short novelette of 100 pages,” in the words of the author, where the protagonist (Gabi) is a teenager who suffers from prosopagnosia, a neurological condition that affects the ability to recognize faces, which the writer herself suffers from.
