Barcelona (EFE).- The Cordovan writer Rosario Villajos has won this Monday the 65th Biblioteca Breve Award, convened by the Seix Barral publishing house with an endowment of 30,000 euros, with her work “Physical education”, whose protagonist explores her own identity through through the body.
The award jury, made up of Pere Gimferrer, Pilar Eusamio, Inés Martín Rodrigo, the editor Elena Ramírez and Isaac Rosa, winner of the last edition, has decided to award the prize to Villajos’s novel for having known how to “capture the feelings of a generation” and turn it into “an experience that is both unique and universal”.
Set at the beginning of the 90s, “Physical Education”, which has prevailed among the 702 submitted manuscripts, draws the portrait of a teenager marked by a complicated relationship with her own body and by resentment towards a world determined to turn her into a guilty for being a woman, and highlights the stories on which the values of an entire generation are built.
