Queen Letizia’s ambitious field has always been, from her commitment, culture. The cinema, of course, but above all the books, as proof that he gave the first edition of The Doncel of Don Enrique the Sorrowful to the very attached Prince of Asturias. They say theirs is
power as a prescriber growing culture. In fact, Luis García Montero, director of the Cervantes Institute, considers her to be “a very cultured person.”
The literary creation of Letizia Ortiz’s biography is characterized by family heritage (her father wanted to be a writer) and romanticism. It was her first husband, Alonso Guerrero
literature teacher at the Ramiro de Maeztu institute. “I discussed literature a lot with her,” Guerrero explained to Leonardo Faccio in Letizia, the impatient queen (Debate).
In her first internship as a journalist in the newspaper La Nueva España in Oviedo, Letizia started writing in the Television and Entertainment section and ended up heading the book reviews section, La Brújula, in the culture section. At 21 years old, already
to dictate his novels Asturians had to read. At 52, he drove the Madrid Book Fair to an event of national importance.
When Letizia defends in the National Museum of Art of Catalonia, it will be
the fourth time in which he presided over the awarding ceremony for the best prize on the Spanish publishing scene. The winner takes home a million euros, which is great for cultural creators who don’t always swim in abundance. This is not the case
the last winner, Sonsoles Ónega. The contract of the Antena 3 evening star is, for sure, a millionaire.
Letizia has protected Planet Sonsoles Ónega
Ónega is one of the queen’s sentimental links with the Planeta Prize, an institution in the literary world that is best known for its books. Bookshop Day (November 11) 2023 was Queen’s news when Letizia stood in line for 40 minutes at El Corte Inglés to ask her friend Sonsoles to sign a copy of The Maid’s Daughters. Probably your favorite Planet.
“Let’s go, my friend, the one you messed up,” Sonsoles Ónega wrote to her in his dedication. The unexpected visit of the queen had a sensitive reason: to support her friend after the very bad criticism of her novel published in a literary supplement. With this sign, not only Letizia
stand morally to her colleague and still close, but she defended the dignity of the award which is the flagship of the publishing industry.
Queen Letizia, reading the program to award the Cervantes Prize to the Leonean writer Luis Mateo Díez, last April. /
Sonsoles Ónega is not the only Premio Planeta who has previously had a romantic relationship with Queen Letizia. Jorge Zepeda Patterson, the winner of 2014 with the novel Milena or the most beautiful femur in the world,
newspaper editor Siglo XXI Mexico, where Letizia worked during her stay in Guadalajara. Since she was a novice and assigned to the leisure supplement, I had no reason to get to know her. And yet, his name immediately caught her attention.
«I was working so hard that, after a few months, I had to call the editor of the supplement to ask why 80% of the articles
signed by this woman», Zepeda recalled when they presented him with the award. «We decided that what she did would be signed by another name: her second last name. “So we had two queens posting,” he joked.
The Lara family, owner of Planeta, is a Bourbon ally
In addition to these sentimental links with the Planeta Prize, the truth is that the Lara family, owner of the publishing house of the same name,
an old ally of the royal family. In fact, at the time it was published that Kings Felipe and Letizia went privately to the Lara Bosch house in January 2015, when José Manuel, the son of the founder and patriarch who also gave him his name, the president of Grupo Planeta, and Atresmedia Corporación.
In 1994, King Emeritus awarded Juan Carlos
the title of marquis from Pedroso de Lara to José Manuel Lara Hernández, founder of the Planeta publishing house and creator of the award that is presented every October 15 in honor of the birthday of his wife, María Teresa Bosch. The title was passed on to the late José Manuel and, in 2015, the third generation of José Manueles of the Lara family claimed it.
There was some disappointment that King Emeritus Juan Carlos did not attend José Manuel Lara’s funeral. Infanta Cristina flew from Geneva to Barcelona to hug Lara’s family when she was informed of the death of the president of Grupo Planeta and Atresmedia. A
move almost secretlybecause no images of the former Duchess of Palma have been revealed.
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