Spanish Literature

Authors

Sofía Balbuena Wins the Ribera del Duero Prize and Talks About Women's Inner Torment

Spanish author Sofía Balbuena has won the Ribera del Duero Prize for short fiction. Her work explores the inner lives of women — not as a sociological exercise, but as the only territory she seems interested in mapping.

Literary Prizes

The Almudena Grandes Prize Is Awarded for the First Time and Something Shifts in the Chest

The first prize bearing Almudena Grandes's name has been awarded. Dani Carrasco thinks about what it means to put someone's name on a prize — and what Grandes meant.