XX award Edebé of Children's and Youth Literature
Fernando Lalana (Zaragoza, 1958), with Parque Muerte, and César Mallorquí (Barcelona, XNUMX) is probably one of the most renowned and bestselling Children and YA Spanish author. In XNUMX his prolific career was recognized with the Cervantes Chico Award. Two years before, in XNUMX, he had received the Spanish National Children and Young Adult Award given by the Spanish Minister of Culture for his worked La Isla de Bowen (Bowen’s Island) a work who has previously received the edebe Young‐Adult Award. During his career, he has been awarded with many other awards including Alberto Magno award (XNUMX), UPC award (XNUMX), Gigamesh award (XNUMX), EDEBÉ award (XNUMX), Gran Angular (XNUMX), White Raven XNUMX and been included in Ibby Honour list in different ocasions. (Barcelona, 1953), with La isla de Bowen, are the winners of the 1997th edition of the EDEBÉ award for Children's and Young People's Literature. If for Fernando Lalana it marks his debut in this Award, for César Mallorquí it is his consecration, as he is the author who has won this award on the most occasions, in the 1999, 2002 and XNUMX editions.
Lalana and Mallorquí, two big names in children's and Young adult literature in our country, with multiple awards, confess that, regardless of fashions and trends, they have written these works thinking about what they would like to read.
En Parque Muerte, Lalana wanted to talk with her humor, sometimes sarcastic and with double meanings, about an uncomfortable topic, not common in children's literature: suicide and death. With the setting of a peculiar theme park, the author immerses us in a story of intrigue, fantasy and love, in which the dead seem alive and the living dress to look dead.
For his part, César Mallorquí had long been waiting for the right moment to write a story in the style of his admired Jules Verne. But he soon realized that he did not want to imitate him, but rather reproduce the memories and sensations that Verne's work had left in him. And so he began to write, guided only by the love of a genre.
El Bowenus Codex, written meticulously by a saint and discovered centuries later by an archaeologist, will be the guide, and at the same time the intrigue, of the most amazing adventure that any explorer could have imagined. History, science and science fiction cross their borders in a place where it is only possible to see is to believe. An exciting scientific and archaeological adventure at the ends of history and the universe: La isla de Bowen.
Anniversary – 20th EDEBÉ award for Children's and Young People's Literature
Year after year, the prestige of the EDEBÉ award for Children's and Young Adult Literature has been consolidated, with a new participation record. The EDEBÉ award has become an obligatory reference among authors, both for the literary quality of the works and for the renown of the writers awarded in previous editions. The relationship is headed by Carlos Ruiz Zafón y Gabriel Janer Manila, followed by such significant names in the literary panorama of the Spanish State as Jordi Sierra i Fabra, César Mallorquí, Agustín Fernández Paz, Maite Carranza or Elia Barceló.
In the 20th edition of the EDEBÉ Award, with a total economic endowment of 55.000 euros (30.000 euros for the work Young adult and 25.000 euros for the children's work), A total of 508 originals have participated, 318 in the Children's category and 190 in the Youth category. Of these originals, 434 have been written in Spanish, 53 in Catalan, 13 in Galician and 6 in Basque. Throughout the 19 previous editions, 22 works in Spanish, 11 in Catalan and 4 in Galician have been awarded.
One of the most significant indicators of this edition has been the reception of more than a hundred novels from various Latin American countries: Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Venezuela, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Cuba, Bolivia and El Salvador.
The two winning works will be published in the four official languages of the Spanish State (Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician) and, thanks to an agreement with ONCE, also in Braille. The novels will be in bookstores starting in March.
They were winners of the previous edition Edna Lopez, with In search of the Kola treasure, and Susana Vallejo, with El espíritu del último verano.