The Diana Zaforteza Narrative Prize is born to promote young authors

Stimulating literary innovation and promoting young authors are the objectives with which the new Diana Zaforteza Narrative Prize was born, which will have an endowment of 20,000 euros and publication and distribution by Galaxia Gutenberg. The award is established in memory of the Barcelona publisher who was a pioneer of the independent publishing boom at the beginning of the 21st century (first at Alpha-Decay and then at Alfàbia) and who died in 2022 at the age of 43. after a long illness.

The driving committee, made up of Dolores Rodés, Lluís Coromina, Patrick Hoogvliet, Josep Massot, Mario Rotllant and Antonio Zaforteza, announced this week the basis of an award that seeks to reward an original work written in the Spanish language, unpublished and not awarded previously Authors over the age of 18 and under the age of 43 may participate in the call. The deadline will be open until April 1, 2024 at 12 midnight and the decision will be made public in June.

This year the jury is made up of Héctor Abad Faciolince, Isabel Coixet, Aixa de la Creu, Ignacio Martínez de Pisón and Azahara Alonso, while Edurne Portela will act as literary director of the award and Ricard Planas, as cultural manager and executive director of the award .

Born in 1978 in Barcelona, Diana Zaforteza maintained a "view free from academic dogmas" and her catalog of publications reflects "a spirit open to surprise and a commitment to the truly literary book": along with the rescue of international classics such as Maeve Brennan, Saul Bellow or Gertrude Stein, spread contemporaries such as Wislawa Szymborska or Junot Díaz, and was attentive to creators from other fields such as Leonard Cohen or Paolo Sorrentino.