The journalist and writer Sonsoles Ónega. she has become the winner of the 2023 Planeta Prize with his novel ‘The Maid’s Daughter’a work presented as ‘Autumn without you’, and signed under the pseudonym Gabriela Monte.

The novel tells the story of a Galician business family, the Valdés, and covers the first two thirds of the 20th century and places such as exotic Cuba and mysterious Galicia, showing how the feisty women of the family created a canning empire in his homeland, but a terrible secret marked their lives forever.

“There is a literary substrate that accompanies me in all my novels, which is destiny. It starts with a cruel revenge that marks the characters,” Sonsoles Ónega explained during his speech. A story that also talks about “love, the search for truth, heartbreak, and the lack of affection” and where “those brave women who fought at sea“.

The journalist has acknowledged that this has been the most demanding challenge” that she has faced. A very exciting moment in which she has not been able to avoid remember his father.

“I thought I had already done the most difficult live shows of my life, but it is clear that I still had something nice in store,” he confessed. An award that she has acknowledged that she “never in her life” dreamed she could win.

Finally, the writer wanted to finish her speech claiming the importance of reading. “That they sell a lot in bookstores and that they lend a lot in libraries so that those who don’t read can read,” he wished, emphasizing that “we will only make a better world” if we feed our heads and hearts with books.

“Dedicated to writers with children and to the children of writers,” she ended by saying, visibly moved.

The winner has a long professional career, working on different television channels such as: CNN+ and Cuatro, where he 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.

As for her role as a writer, she has published novels such as ‘After Love’, with which she received the Fernando Lara Novel Prize 2017, as well as ‘Encuentros en Bonaval’, ‘Nosotras que lo quimos todo’ and ‘A Thousand Forbidden Kisses’. ‘.