The Spanish Sonsoles Ónega wins the 2023 Planeta Novel Prize

The Spanish Sonsoles Ónega wins the 2023 Planeta Novel Prize

The Madrid journalist Sonsoles Ónega, who this Sunday night won the 72nd Planet Novel Awardhas been professionally a television professional, although she has also frequented her literary vocation.

Daughter of fellow journalist Fernando Ónega, Sonsoles Ónega (Madrid, November 30, 1977) graduated in Journalism from the CEU San Pablo University and since then her career has developed in the television medium, first at CNN+, then Cuatro, and from in 2008 on Telecinco news, where she was a parliamentary reporter for ten years.

Between 2018 and 2022, she was the presenter of the Telecinco events program “It’s already noon” and as of July 2022, when he signed for Atresmedia Televisión, chaired by the president of Grupo Planeta, José Creuheras, he hosts the space “And now Sonsoles.”

In the literary field, Ónega debuted in 2004 with the short novel “Havana Street, Obispo corner” (Septem Ediciones), a portrait of Cuban reality in the 90s, which won the III Literature Prize for short novels.

Later, he published “Where God was not” (Grand Guignol, 2007) about the attacks of March 11, 2004; “Encounters in Bonaval” (Temas de Hoy, 2010), set in the world of journalism at the end of Franco’s regime.

Sonsoles Ónega is also the author of “We who wanted it all” (Planeta, 2015) and “A Thousand Forbidden Kisses” (Planeta, 2020).

Until today’s Planeta Prize, its greatest success had been “After Love” (Planeta, 2017), set in Spain during the Second Republic, which won the Fernando Lara Award.

Source: Gestion

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