EDEBÉ Children's Literature Award 2012:
DEATH PARKby Fernando Lalana
It was Eufemiano Cordiales, the new image advisor and press officer of the arms multinational PRISPOSA (Pistolas y Proyectiles SA), who proposed creating Parque Muerte to improve the company's bad image and attract children and families. According to him, little ones are fascinated by death. Death and everything that has to do with it: cemeteries, vampires, zombies, crimes, creaking coffins, ghosts, autopsies... And indeed, everything worked according to plan until, a year later After its inauguration, a truly unprecedented and, in some ways, terrifying situation arose, which could ruin the project. A situation that, without a doubt, was hidden from public opinion, but that needed to be resolved urgently.
Publication: March 2012
Fernando Lalana
Fernando Lalana was born in Zaragoza in 1958 and has sold three million copies of his books.
He studied Law but literature has been his first and only profession since he published in 1982 The secret of the grove (finalist for the Steamboat Award).
Apart from other minor awards and awards, Lalana has won three times the Gran Angular award, the Barco de Vapor award, the Honorable Mention of the Lazarillo award, the Jaén award, the National award for Children's Literature and Young Adult 1991 (with You will die in Chafarinas, made into a film by Pedro Olea) and the Cervantes Chico Award, in 2010.
Fernando Lalana lives in Zaragoza, where the City Council organizes a literary contest with his name every year. He is married and has two daughters.
Parque Muerte, winner of the 2012 EDEBÉ Award, is her 111th book.