Premio Planeta de Novela (Planeta Novel Prize)
1 appearances
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Edition 68 (2019) Runner-up
Manuel Vilas
マヌエル・ビラス
Manuel Vilas
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- Barbastro, Huesca, Spain
- Nationality
- Spain
- Languages
- Spanish
Career
- Occupations
- writer, poet, novelist, essayist, university professor
- Active Years
- 1990-
- Affiliations
- University of Iowa
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Prix Femina Étranger | Ordesa | — | Prix Femina (France) | Winner |
| 2019 | Premio Planeta (Finalist) | Alegría | — | Grupo Planeta | Finalist |
Prix Femina Étranger
2019
Work:
Ordesa
Organization:
Prix Femina (France)
Result:
Winner
Premio Planeta (Finalist)
2019
Work:
Alegría
Organization:
Grupo Planeta
Result:
Finalist
Awards & Nominations
Premio Nadal
1 appearances
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Edition 80 (2023) Winner
Works
Major Works
Ordesa
2018 Novel (autobiographical elements)A novel with strong autobiographical elements that explores family, loss, and memory. Through a shifting first-person perspective the book moves between past and present to examine love, grief, and fragmented life experiences.
familylossmemoryself-exploration
Translations
- English translation by Andrea Rosenberg (Riverhead Books, 2020)
Alegría
2019 NovelA novel addressing happiness and everyday life through the author's personal experiences. Structured in episodic chapters, it combines irony and insight to reflect on contemporary existence.
happinesseveryday lifepersonal history
Bibliography
- Ordesa (2018)
- Alegría (2019)
- Ordesa — English edition translated by Andrea Rosenberg (Riverhead Books, 2020)
Translations of Works
- Ordesa — English translation by Andrea Rosenberg (2020)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- autobiographical and retrospective narrationdirect, emotionally candid voice
- Recurring Motifs
- family memoryloss and renewalfragments of time
Legacy
Regarded as one of contemporary Spain's notable writers; Ordesa brought him international attention and has been widely read through translations.
Trivia
- Has taught at the University of Iowa.
- Ordesa won the Prix Femina Étranger.