Manuel Vilas wins the 79th Nadal Prize with the novel ‘We’

The poet and writer Manuel Vilas has won the 79th edition of the Nadal Novel Prize, endowed this year with 30,000 euros, with his work “We”, which the convener of the award, Editorial Destino, It will be published on February 1st.. In the act of proclamation, which this year has recovered its usual pre-pandemic format of a literary dinner, Vilas, who had submitted to the award under the pseudonym Emily Watson, has won the Nadal with the novel “Us”, which had the title fictitious of “The love of the wind”.

Previously, on the same evening, the winner of the 55th edition of the Josep Pla Award of prose in Catalan, endowed with 10,000 euros, which has fallen to the novelist Gemma Ventura Farré for her first novela, “La llei de l’hivern”, which he had presented with the fictitious title “Quan obri els ulls arepareixeras” and under the pseudonym Laura Vallclara. Both novels share protagonists who face, each one in her own way, the loss of a loved one.