The journalist Sonsoles Ónega wins the 22nd Lara Fernando Prize for Fiction

“The novel Después del amor todo son palabras (After Love There’s Only Words), set during the Civil War, tells the story of a victim of the misogynistic society of that time, a woman who dares to ask for a divorce in order to follow her Republican lover into exile.

Once gone, her regrets about leaving her children behind will follow her until her death.

(…) The Fernando Lara Prize for Fiction is one of the most important in the Spanish language and comes with an award of 120,000 euros. Last year the prestigious prize went to Paloma Sánchez-Garnica for her novel Mi recuerdo es más fuerte que tu olvido (My Memory is Stronger Than Your Oblivion”).”

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