The writer,\u00a0Carmen V. Vali\u00f1a, has received this afternoon in A Coru\u00f1a the\u00a0Repsol Short Story Award in Galician\u00a0thanks to her work\u00a0Isla de sangre\u00a0and has been awarded\u00a012,000 euros\u00a0and with the publication of her book by\u00a0Editorial Galaxia, which can already be found in bookstores.<\/p>\n
The ceremony took place at the headquarters of the\u00a0Fundaci\u00f3n Paideia Galicia\u00a0and was chaired by\u00a0Valent\u00edn Garc\u00eda G\u00f3mez, Secretary-General of Language Policy,\u00a0Natalia Barreiro, director of the Repsol Industrial Complex in A Coru\u00f1a, and\u00a0Xos\u00e9 Manuel Soutullo, executive managing director of Editorial Galaxia.<\/p>\n
The event was also attended by the mayor of Arteixo,\u00a0Carlos Calvelo, the councilors of Culture of A Coru\u00f1a and Arteixo,\u00a0Gonzalo Castro\u00a0and\u00a0Dolores Dubra, members of the corporation of both municipalities, as well as various authorities and representatives of business and socio-cultural entities, among other attendees.<\/p>\n
The ceremony closed with a recital by two of the members of the Galician traditional music group\u00a0Xiro:\u00a0Icia Kirk, vocalist and percussionist, and\u00a0Xan Pampin, accordionist.<\/p>\n
Blood island<\/p>\n
In its 19th edition, the Repsol Short Story Award featured more than forty original and unpublished works with a minimum length of 50 pages and a maximum of 120.<\/p>\n
Fran Fern\u00e1ndez Davila, spokesperson for the Jury, highlighted in October about the novel by\u00a0Carmen V. Vali\u00f1a\u00a0“its ability to immerse us in a game of temporary mirrors that on the one hand takes us to the difficult time in the immediate post-war period and to the world of the oppressed, and on the other, places them in a tumultuous present with the symbolic island of San Sim\u00f3n as the setting.\u201d According to the members of the Jury, the work “is written with finely crafted prose and brushes of lyricism, this narration also opens up intrigue with the desperation of one of the main characters, a mystery that will take us to an ending that is sure to be as surprising as it is disturbing\u201d<\/p>\n
The winner\u00a0<\/p>\n
Carmen V. Vali\u00f1a (Baio, A Coru\u00f1a, 1985)\u00a0is a\u00a0doctor in Contemporary History,\u00a0professor at the Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes (UEMC), and\u00a0creator and director of PeriF\u00e9ricas, Alternative Feminism School.<\/p>\n
She combines research on the memory of anonymous women of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with her talent as a writer of fiction where memories, the rural world, and autobiography hold a remarkable weight. She wrote and published about Spanish journalists in the Middle East and about emigrants from the Tierra de Soneira in Switzerland, but since 2021, she has specialized in the stories of female inmates at Conxo. The result of this work is her essay\u00a0As tolas que non o era (The fools who weren\u2019t) (2025, Galaxia).<\/p>\n
In 2024, she took part in the\u00a0Mari\u00f1\u00e1n Residence for Literature and Thought\u00a0and in the\u00a0Literary Residence of the Island of San Sim\u00f3n, and this year she has been one of the authors selected for the\u00a05th Literary Residence of the Cidade da Cultura, REGA 2025.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Repsol Short Story Award: nearly twenty years creating Galician literature<\/p>\n
The Short Story Award was created in\u00a02006\u00a0by the\u00a0Repsol Industrial Complex in A Coru\u00f1a\u00a0and organized jointly with the\u00a0General Secretariat of Language of the Xunta de Galicia, with the aim of promoting Galician culture and language. In\u00a02010, the Repsol Foundation\u00a0took over the promotion of the contest, which, since its inception, has had the support of the\u00a0Royal Galician Academy\u00a0and the\u00a0Galician Language Writers Association (AELG), as well as the close collaboration with\u00a0Editorial Galaxia, which published the previous winning works.<\/p>\n
In the first edition, in\u00a02006, the journalist,\u00a0Miguel Sande, won this award for his work\u00a0Si alg\u00fan d\u00eda esta mujer muerta\u00a0and\u00a0Xavier Lama, a USC professor and journalist, won an award for\u00a0El insomnio de los centauros.<\/p>\n
The winner of the second edition was the work\u00a0As\u00ed nacen las ballenas, by the writer, \u00c1nxeles Sumai, and in the third the narrator, playwright, and cartoonist,\u00a0Xos\u00e9 Lu\u00eds Mart\u00ednez Pereiro, won the award for\u00a0La verdad como mal menor.<\/p>\n
In the\u00a02010\u00a0edition, the award went to the writer,\u00a0Xurxo Sierra, for his work\u00a0Los Fios.\u00a0Microbios y otros pachidermos by Fernando D\u00edaz-Castroverde\u00a0won the\u00a02011\u00a0edition.<\/p>\n
In\u00a02012, the award went to\u00a0La forma de las nubes, by Mar\u00eda L\u00f3pez Sande; while in\u00a02013\u00a0the winning short story was\u00a0El \u00faltimo libro de Emma Olsen, by Berta D\u00e1vila.<\/p>\n
In\u00a02014 Santiago Lopo\u00a0won the award thanks to his work\u00a0La diagonal de los Locos\u00a0and in\u00a02015\u00a0the winning short story was\u00a0Font\u00e1n del vigu\u00e9s by Marcos Calveiro.\u00a0Daniel Asorey\u00a0was the winner of the\u00a02016\u00a0edition with his novel\u00a0Nordeste.<\/p>\n
The journalist, writer, and professor,\u00a0Xos\u00e9 A. Neira Cruz, won the award for\u00a0El sonido de las sirenas\u00a0in\u00a02017, and\u00a0Ant\u00f3n Lopo\u00a0won in\u00a02018\u00a0for his work\u00a0Extraordinario.<\/p>\n
In the\u00a02019 and 2020\u00a0editions, two new Galician writers were awarded:\u00a0Gonzalo Hermo\u00a0for his work\u00a0Diario de un entierro\u00a0and\u00a0Berta D\u00e1vila\u00a0became the winner of this award for the second time with her short story,\u00a0Isla Decepci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n
In\u00a02021, the novel Eternity by writer Xos\u00e9 Monteagudo\u00a0won him the prize, and in\u00a02022,\u00a0Alberto Ramos\u00a0won for his novel\u00a0Los cuerpos dos Romanov. In\u00a02023, the winner of the award was Fran Fern\u00e1ndez Davila\u00a0for his work\u00a0Groenlandia\u00a0and in the last edition, Ramos became the winner for the second time with his novel\u00a0Pirotecnia.<\/p>\n
Since its inception in\u00a02006, the contest has had the participation of almost\u00a0600 original works\u00a0by Galician writers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The writer,\u00a0Carmen V. Vali\u00f1a, has received this afternoon in A Coru\u00f1a the\u00a0Repsol Short Story Award in Galician\u00a0thanks to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[9385,9386,9384,127,9383],"class_list":{"0":"post-16551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-repsol","8":"tag-awareness","9":"tag-divulgation","10":"tag-more-than-words","11":"tag-repsol","12":"tag-repsol-foundation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}