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A woman won a million-euro Spanish literary prize
October 18, 2021, 01:10 PM
sdyA woman won a million-euro Spanish literary prize
It turned out that ‘she’ was actually three men.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...le-writer-three-men/Spain’s top writer of crime thrillers, a professor and mother who wrote under the pseudonym Carmen Mola, supposedly to maintain her anonymity.
But on Friday night, at a ceremony to award the 1 million euro (about $1,160,000) Planeta literary prize to Mola for her historical thriller “The Beast,” three men ascended the podium and claimed the award instead.
the writers spinning these tales were really Jorge Díaz, Agustín Martínez and Antonio Mercero
The trio have said they chose the name by chance and for fun — without paying any particular thought to the gender of the name or the possible implications.
“It hasn’t escaped anyone’s notice that the idea of a university professor and mother of three who taught algebra classes in the morning then wrote ultraviolent, macabre novels in scraps of free time in the afternoon made for a great marketing operation,” Spain’s El Mundo newspaper wrote in an interview with the authors.
October 18, 2021, 01:24 PM
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October 18, 2021, 01:26 PM
BurtonRWPriceless.
Any bets on whether someone will attempt to claim some sort of fraud or otherwise yell shenanigans and try to rescind the award?
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A=A October 18, 2021, 01:34 PM
parabellumWe need more of this.
October 18, 2021, 02:50 PM
RightwireIn essence they identified as a woman so it's all good right?
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There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. October 18, 2021, 02:52 PM
Rey HRHWhat's the name for this...?
The award committee most likely insisted the winner be a woman to get away from the patriarchal hegemony.
Well deserved, I say. Well deserved.
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October 18, 2021, 03:18 PM
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October 18, 2021, 03:24 PM
Il CattivoNo luck finding English translations here in the U.S. It would've been fun to contribute my mite.
October 18, 2021, 03:29 PM
RogueJSKThe proverbial "three midgets in a trenchcoat", eh?
October 18, 2021, 05:29 PM
2012BOSS302Are we to believe the literary geniuses giving the award and even Spain's Women's Institute couldn't tell the books were written by men. Even after reading the entire trilogy. Hmm must not be much relevance to that gender obsessed point of view.
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