Once the Madrid Book Fair is over, the calendar of literary events does not stop and rushes these weeks prior to the summer break. Thus, the decision of the IV Lumen de Novelas award was announced this Tuesday morning at the headquarters of the José Ortega y Gasset-Gregorio Marañón Foundation in Madrid. On the stage of the María de Maeztu room, the jury made up of the writers Ángeles González-Sinde and Sabina Urraca, the bookseller Lola Larumbe from Rafael Alberti in Madrid, and María Fasce, literary director of Lumen. The poet and writer Elena Medel could not attend the meeting today, but she participated in the vote. In this fourth edition, since the award created by Esther Tusquets in the nineties was recovered, the prize has gone to Invented love by the Argentine writer Paula Klein (Buenos Aires, 40 years old), who has already published in Lumen The witches of Monte Veritá in 2023. The novel will hit bookstores on October 1 throughout the Spanish-speaking world.
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