Almudena Grandes, the first favorite daughter of Madrid despite the vote against Vox

The plenary session of the City Council Madrid has definitively approved this Tuesday the appointment of Almudena Grandes as the city’s favorite daughter posthumously, although Vox has voted against. In this way, the author will become the first woman to receive this appointment.

The favorite sons of the Spanish capital are Rafael de Penagos and Beltrán Osorio, Duke of Alburquerque, appointed in 1994. In addition, this recognition was approved in 2012 for Plácido Domingo and in 2015 for Julio Iglesias. The last personality to whom this distinction was awarded was, in 2021 and posthumously, the urban planner Arturo Soria.

One of the figures of Spanish literature

Almudena Grandes established herself as one of the most important figures in Spanish literature for ‘The ages of Lulu’, his first novel. This was a great success among critics, being translated into more than 20 languages ​​and brought to the big screen by Bigas Luna. A few years later he published ‘Malena is a tango name’which came to the cinema thanks to Gerardo Herrero.

In subsequent years he wrote ‘Atlas of human geography’ or ‘Rough Winds’, which also ended up on the big screen thanks to Gerardo Herrero. In 2007 he published ‘The Frozen Heart’which earned him the José Manuel Lara Foundation Prize and the award from the Madrid booksellers’ guild.

‘Ines and joy’ It led him to win the Critics’ Prize, the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize and the Elena Poniatowska Ibero-American Novel Prize. Subsequently, she was awarded the Atocha Lawyers Prize, the Liber Prize and the National Narrative Prize.

Other recognitions

In 2020 she was named doctor “honoris causa” by the National University of Distance Education (UNED) and has been awarded with other recognitions such as the prizes Rosone d’Or from Italy to his work as a whole (1997), the of the UGT union, Julián Besteiro of Arts and Letters (2002), the International Lawyers of Atocha (2017) or the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature (2020) by ‘Doctor Garcia’s patients’.

Vox has voted against

On several occasions Grandes expressed his opinion about this political formation now against him: “Vox? One no longer knows what they are more, if stupid or bad”. You can see in this video weeks before the pandemic arrived, that Grandes was on the set of laSexta Noche with Iñaki López, being very critical of the parental pin defended by Vox.

“It is the ‘Neanderthal pin’. As long as everyone’s money does not support only public education, saying that the State puts its hands in families is something that we should not tolerate,” he expressed then.