The writer from Pontevedra, Manel Loureiro, has won the twenty-ninth edition of the Fernando Lara novel prize, with a mystery novel entitled ‘Cuando la tormenta pase.’
The award was handed out during a gala dinner held yesterday, Thursday, May 16, at the Alcázar of Seville, and is endowed with 120,000 euros. The winning novel was selected from a total of 565 originals and tells the story of a mystery on a small island off the Galician coast.
Loureiro, who is known for the ‘Apocalípsis Z’ trilogy and whose latest book is ‘La Ladrona de huesos’ (Planeta, 2022), explained that the winning novel takes place on a small Atlantic island whose inhabitants have many secrets to keep and whose protagonist "will have to struggle to survive".
That island off the Galician coast is the island of Ons, a place, as the author explained to journalists after receiving the award, paradisiacal in summer, when it receives thousands of tourists arriving by ferry every day, but in winter there are only about thirty neighbors and a lighthouse keeper.
