2023-10-15 23:25:52
Sonsoles Ónega (Madrid, 45 years old) is the winner of the Planeta Prize, endowed with one million euros and which won its LXXII edition this Sunday. A Planet that is once again television, to watch itself on the small screen and sweep home, taking advantage of the pull of one of its rising stars and with a short career as a novelist on the same Planeta label. This time she is awarded a star from Antena 3, the Atresmedia channel controlled by Planeta, the group chaired by José Creuheras. Ónega won the appreciated award thanks to ‘The Maid’s Daughters’, a novel with Galician roots, like the family of the author who presented her original under the pseudonym Gabriela Monte and the provisional title of ‘Otoño sin ti’.
There was no female duo, like last year – and until the last moment the Nicaraguan Gioconda Belli was strongly featured in the pools – and the finalist was the young and unknown essayist and novelist Alfonso Goizueta Alfaro, who at only 24 years old the 200,000 euros thanks to ‘The Blood of the Father’. It is a fictionalized biography of Alexander the Great that he presented under the pseudonym Luis Parterrío and with the provisional title of ‘The King of the East’.
‘The Maid’s Daughters’ tells the story of a family of Galician businessmen, the Valdés, marked by a classic affair in literature, the exchange of two newborns, a rich child and a poor one. Daughters, in this case from the same father, one from his wife and the other from a maid, born in the same manor and on the same day.
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The novel covers the first two thirds of the 20th century through three generations of women and places like Cuba and the most mysterious Galicia. The women of the family, fighters and entrepreneurs, will create an entire canning empire in their native lands, although the terrible secret of their origin will mark their lives forever.
Daughter of Marisol Salcedo and the Galician journalist Fernando Ónega, journalist, presenter and writer in that order, Sonsoles Ónega Salcedo debuted in literature with an anthology about 11-M, ‘Where God was not’ (2007), and has in her There are several more books. With the short novel ‘Calle Habana, corner Obispo’ (2005) she was proclaimed winner of the Literature Award; and with ‘After Love’ (2017), set in Spain during the Second Republic, she won the XXII edition of the Fernando Lara Novel Prize, another award in the Planeta sphere. She has also published ‘A Thousand Prohibited Kisses’ (2020), ‘Nosotras que lo quimos todo’ (2015) and ‘Encuentros en Bonaval’ (2010).
Graduated in Journalism from the San Pablo-CEU University, she has worked for different media. She began her professional career at CNN + and continued at the Cuatro network, joining Telecinco’s news services in 2008 as a reporter and where she would be a parliamentary reporter for ten years. She collaborated as a political analyst on the radio program ‘La afternoon’ on Cadena COPE and, since 2018, she presented her own program under the name ‘It’s already midday’ on Telecinco, a current affairs and heart magazine.
Two years later she made her debut as a presenter on ‘The Strong House’ and on ‘Apropos of Supervivientes’. In 2021 she was granted another similar space in the afternoons of Telecinco, ‘It’s already eight’. But in 2022, her two programs were canceled from the Mediaset schedule and she decided to sign for Atresmedia to host an afternoon program, ‘And now Sonsoles’, which premiered almost a year ago.
Divorced in 2019 from Carlos Pardo, the father of her two children, in 2020 she began a relationship with her current partner, the architect César Vidal. She is the sister of fellow journalist Cristina Ónega, who started in the newsroom of TVE as an expert in courts; She has also worked for the General Council of the Judiciary as communications director and since 2018 she has directed the 24h TVE channel.
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Alfonso Goizueta Alfaro (Madrid, 1999) has a degree in History and International Relations from King’s College London. ‘The Blood of the Father’ is a biography of Alexander the Great focused on the psychological profile of the character. After the murder of his father, he undertakes an expedition to Persia to free the people from barbarism. But battle after battle, his laudable objective is transformed into pure ambition and he himself will end up becoming a tyrant who drags his people to death.
In 2017, Goizueta published his first book, ‘Limiting Power 1871-1939’, a history of Western diplomacy from German unification to the invasion of Poland. It was followed in 2018 by ‘The Last Rulers of Castile’, an essay on the historical origins of Spanish unity in the 15th and 16th centuries. He is also the author of ‘Heart of Deities’, a novelized Time.news of Greek mythology, and of ‘The Greenhouses of Gem Salt’, starring two English brothers, Eliot and Duty Pentaporte, invited to study magic in a castle in the north of Scotland.
Goizueta is a regular signatory to university publications and the ABC newspaper with articles on the Spanish and international political situation and has published several tribunes on these topics.
The ruling was announced during a crowded literary evening at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC). This year, 1,129 originals were submitted for the award, an absolute record for participation, with 461 more than a year before. The jury that awarded Ónega and Goizueta was made up of Juan Eslava Galán, José Manuel Blecua, Pere Gimferrer, Carmen Posadas, Rosa Regàs and Fernando Delgado – who voted by mail -, as well as the director of the Planeta publishing house and secretary of the voting jury, Belen Lopez.
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