'Sfumato' Wins Award for Novel Unicaja Fernando Quinones

Failure of the X Prize were Novel Unicaja stretched over three hours and was, according to Valeria Ciompi, editorial director of Alliance, a "stimulating discussion" between persons of "great personal and literary." Part of what was due to discuss Sunday night among the jurors was reflected in the official notice of the award, where Camilo J. Cela Conde, Mariano Antolín Rato, Manuel Amaya Zulueta, Miguel Naver, Juana Salabert, Perez Azaústre and Nadia Consolani, widow of Fernando Quinones, analyzed the works that won. The winner of this year, Jordi Bonells (Barcelona, 1951), has been done with the 30,000 euros prize with Sfumato, a novel that chronicles the adventures of a chess more convulsed in the years of the twentieth century. Both Mariano Antolín Rato as Valeria Ciompi and Joanna Salabert stressed the "high quality" of writing a story that is being rebuilt "through ghosts," Ciompi said: "Bonells provides a constant dialogue with the past in the darkest moments of our recent history, in a web of stories that will reveal the main thread. In this world, the characters move like a chess game. The message of the novel really comes to be that you never know who you may be shaking hands. " The jury noted, moreover, that this ruling is granted "to the literary quality beyond the normal market." The fact that it has awarded to a novel "very intellectual" is to review 'at a time like the present-added Miguel Naver, when publishers are supposed to go around looking for writers who are not writers to attract readers who are not readers. " "It is curious that almost apologizing because we've won a book that is a fact book for readers," said Juana also Salabert, which indicated that Sfumato is not an expert chess title for a book or complicated structure, but a history of references and games with the past. On the other hand, Maria José Rivera Ortún, Professor of Mathematics at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, was named a finalist with the work Harmattan. Rivera Ortún signing it with his first novel, previously only had written investigative articles and stories. "It's very beautiful it is a first play-Azaústre said Joaquin Perez, winner of last edition of the prize. Harmattan I would define as a story of the characters, with an eroticism outside usual between two women and one which recounts precisely what's happening in those places where nothing ever happens. " For Camilo Jose Cela Conde, the finalist presents "a language unsuitable for a first novel," and shares many of the keys of literary excellence that is looking at the prize. "Even if talk of the plot, with the exotic scenery of the Sahara, would pass through an airport novel." Unicaja-Fernando Quinones Novel were presented this year 205 novels from Spain, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Belgium, Cuba, Mexico, France, Costa Rica, Colombia and Portugal. In this tenth anniversary, which makes the decade without Quiñones, Nadia confessed Consolani wonder, sometimes, why they got in trouble for these writers. And it's very easily resolved. It's one more way of being with Fernando