The journalist Inés Martín Rodrigo wins the Nadal 2022 award with her second novel, ‘The forms of wanting’

The Madrid journalist Inés Martín Rodrigo has won the 78th edition of the Nadal Novel Prize, endowed with 18,000 euros, with his work “The forms of wanting”, which Editorial Destino will publish on February 2. In the act of proclamation exclusively reserved for the press, having suspended the traditional literary evening due to the pandemic, Martín Rodrigo, who had presented himself for the award under the pseudonym Candela Vázquez Soto, has won the Nadal with the novel “Las forms of wanting, “which had the fictitious title of” The life that went away. ”

At the same event, the winner of the 54th edition of the Josep Pla Prose Prize in Catalan was announced, which has fallen on the also journalist Toni Cruanyes, for his memorial work “La Vall de la Llum”, which he had presented with the fictitious title “El llibre de l’avi” and under the pseudonym of Maria Becana. Both winning books will be published by Destino on February 2.

The journalist from Madrid has reached the literary peak with a second novel, a milestone in the history of the award. In his previous and first novel, “Blue are the hours“(Espasa), Inés Martín Rodrigo evoked the life of Sofía Casanova, poet, writer, journalist, translator, considered the first Spanish correspondent abroad.

In his youth in Madrid came to attract the attention of King Alfonso XII and she rubbed shoulders with the intelligentsia of the time and at the age of 26 she married the Polish philosopher Wincenty Lutoslawski, with whom she had three daughters and traveled through Europe. The failure of her marriage caused her to end up taking refuge as a correspondent for the newspaper ABC, for which she sent articles on the two world wars or the Russian Revolution, the same newspaper in which the Nadal winner works.

Degree in Journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid, Martín Rodrigo (Madrid, 1983) coordinates the Books area of ​​the newspaper ABC, in addition to collaborating on “ABC Cultural”. She has also been a jury for the Critical Eye Award for Novel, the Jaén Novel Award, the Dos Passos a la first novel or the Carmen Martín Gaite, and organizer of colloquia at the Hay Festival in Segovia.

Is author of the essay “David Foster Wallace, the genius who did not know how to have fun”, that appears in the work “David Foster Wallace: Portable” (Random House Literature, 2016), and in the prologue of the Spanish edition of “Virginia Woolf’s diary. Vol. I (1915-1919)” (Tres Hermanas, 2017 ). In addition, she is the author of the story “Leap into the void”, which was part of the special issue that the ABC Cultural supplement dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the magazine “Blanco y Negro” (June 2016).

In 2019, it was selected by the AECID (Spanish Agency for International Cooperation) in the first edition of the “10 de 30” program, which seeks publicize and promote the work of a dozen writers abroad Spaniards between 30 and 40 years old; As part of the program, he participated in the Lima Book Fair and offered a creative writing workshop at the Cultural Center of Spain in the Peruvian capital in July of that year.