Presentation of the iii city of estepona novel prize
Next Tuesday, Marina Perezagua will receive the III City of Estepona Novel Award for her work 'The Beach'
The delivery will take place in the Auditorium of the Mirador del Carmen Cultural Center in an event open to the public, where the renowned guitarist Daniel Casares will perform.
The Estepona City Council informs that the writer Marina Perezagua will receive next Tuesday, April 30, the III City of Estepona Novel Award for her work 'The Beach'. The delivery ceremony will take place in the Auditorium of the Mirador del Carmen Center at 7:00 p.m., in an event open to the public that will be attended by the mayor, José María García Urbano; the president of the Manuel Alcántara Foundation, Antonio Pedraza; Manuel Borrás, literary editor of Pre-Textos; Guillermo Busutil, writer and director of the award; and Manuel Vilas, writer and jury of the award.
The City of Estepona Novel Award, a joint initiative of the Estepona City Council and the Manuel Alcántara Foundation, has as its fundamental objective to promote and recognize excellence in literary creation, consolidating itself as one of the most outstanding awards at the national level in this field. The award has a prize of 25,000 euros for the winning work, which has been published by Editorial Pre-Textos.
After the award ceremony, a meeting-discussion will be held in which Marina Perezagua, Guillermo Busutil and Manuel Vilas will participate. Later, the renowned guitarist from Estepona Daniel Casares will perform. The performer and composer, located in the elite of flamenco guitar, has an extensive musical career and has been awarded numerous awards and recognitions. In addition, he has shared a studio and stage with renowned international artists, such as Loreena McKennitt, Toquinho, Dulce Pontes, Chucho Valdés, Cecilia Bartoli and Alejandro Sanz.
The event will conclude with the signing of copies by the award-winning Marina Perezagua, followed by a toast with a glass of wine to celebrate the closing of the third edition of the award.
The judge
Last September, a jury made up of renowned members of the Spanish literary and journalistic community evaluated the nearly 700 works presented. Among them were the Spanish poet and writer Manuel Vilas, finalist for the Planeta Prize in 2019 and winner of the Nadal Prize in 2023; the writer, translator and journalist Ángeles Caso; the Hispanic philologist and journalist David Felipe Arranz, who is also a professor at the Carlos III University of Madrid and collaborates in several media outlets; the writer and journalist Eva Díaz Pérez; Silvia Pratdesaba, editor of Pre-Textos Publishing House; and the writer and journalist Guillermo Busutil, winner of the National Cultural Journalism Award in 2021.
The jury defined 'The Beach' as "a novel of thought that illuminates and leaves in darkness the complexity of motherhood, and the bonds between mothers and daughters. In a three-voice conversation, the story explores fears, absences, guilt, death, and turns hospitals and medical terminology into literary territory.
Marina Perezagua
Marina Perezagua has a degree in Art History from the University of Seville. He taught classes in Spanish-American language, literature, history and cinema at the State University of New York, where he completed his doctorate in Hispanic Philology. After living for a long time in France and working at the Cervantes Institute in Lyon, he returned to New York, where he taught creative writing classes at New York University as Distinguished Writer in Residence.
She is the author of the story collections 'Abyssal Creatures' and 'Milk'. He has published three novels: 'Yoro', 'Don Quijote de Manhattan' and 'Six ways to die in Texas' (Anagrama), a book of poetry: 'Nana de la Medusa' (Espasa) and 'A –122 meters' ( Planeta), a technical book, but of a hybrid genre about the world runner-up in freediving and the benefits of this sport, co-authored with Miguel Lozano.
He has published in various anthologies and literary magazines, such as Renacimiento, Carátula, Sibila, Ñ, Quimera, Granta, Letras Libres, Jot Down, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, Anfibia. It has been translated into nine languages and her novel 'Yoro' was awarded the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize 2016. She is a contributor to El País.