BARCELONA, 15 (EUROPA PRESS)
The journalist, presenter and writer Sonsoles Ónega has won this Sunday night with ‘The Maid’s Daughters’ the LXXII Planeta Novel Prize 2023, worth 1 million euros.
Ónega (Madrid, 1977) had presented the work with the title ‘Otoño sin ti’ and under the pseudonym Gabriela Monte.
It is the story of a family of Galician businessmen, the Valdés, and covers the first two thirds of the 20th century and places such as exotic Cuba and mysterious Galicia, showing how the women of the family, fighters, created a canning empire in their land. native, but a terrible secret marked their lives forever.
The winner has developed her professional career on different television channels: on CNN+ and Cuatro she chronicled courts; From 2008 to 2018 she was the parliamentary correspondent for Informativos Telecinco, a network in which she also presented the program ‘Ya esmidon’, and currently she presents ‘And now Sonsoles’ on Antena 3.
He has signed the novels ‘After Love’, with which he received the 2017 Fernando Lara Novel Prize, as well as ‘Encuentros en Bonaval’, ‘Nosotras que lo quimos todo’ and ‘A Thousand Forbidden Kisses’.
NOVEL ABOUT DESTINY
Upon receiving the award, he assured that this speech is “the most difficult” he has given in his life, and has advanced that in his novel he delves into a theme that is present in all his previous works: destiny.
‘The Maid’s Daughters’ “starts with a cruel revenge that tears lives and will condition the characters” in a story where love, the search for truth and heartbreaks also have a place, and in which brave women are the protagonists.
He has confessed that this is the most demanding challenge he has faced in his life, in which he has assured that he has accumulated “many failures”, and has recalled that 2023 marks 18 years since the publication of his first novel.
Ónega has claimed the power of reading, stating that there is no citizen better armed against powers and abuses than a well-read citizen, and he concluded his speech by dedicating the award to his people, “to writers with children and to the children of the writers.”
