Joan Olivares wins again in Alzira with a novel of post-war memory
Felip del Cabàs takes the fiction prize twenty-seven years after the writer’s previous win.
Joan Olivares has won the thirty-eighth Premi de Novel·la Ciutat d’Alzira with Felip del Cabàs. The result was announced on 6 November at the Gran Teatre in Alzira, in Spain’s Valencian Community. The bond between teenage Vicent and Felip develops in the rural post-war years; much later a German woman tries to reconstruct their story. Olivares, who won twenty-seven years earlier with Vespres de sang, dedicated the new work in part to filmmaker Toni Canet, with whom he had shared a project connected to the story. The ceremony, organised by the municipality and Bromera, also recognised Francesc Gisbert for El primer cas and Ximo Cerdà for Vera Gran, Vera Menuda.