The 16th Setenil Prize 20198 for the Best Book of Stories Published in Spain already has 10 finalists out of a total of 102 titles presented by publishers and authors from all over the country, in the third busiest edition of its history.
The titles chosen by the pre-selection commission are the following:
La mala entraña, by Elena Alonso Frayle (Baile del Sol)
The imagined, by Juncal Baeza (Sixteen)
The wrong hours, by Santiago Casero González (La Discreta)
Fabrica de prodigios, by Pablo Andrés Escapa (Foam Pages)
Tourists of the dharma, by Albert Franquesa (Hermenaute)
Skin change, by Marcos Giralt Torrente (Anagrama)
Species in extinction, by Faustino Lara Ibáñez (Tantín)
The water library, by Clara Obligado (Foam Pages)
Bad days, by Victoria Pelayo Rapado (Of the moon books)
The small print, by Andrés Pérez Domínguez (Triskel)
The Setenil Prize for the Best Book of Stories Published in Spain, convened by the Department of Culture of the City of Molina de Segura and endowed with 10,000 euros, has become an essential national reference in the genre of the story.
In this 16th edition, the jury presides the Granada writer Ángel Olgoso, also Carmen M. Pujante Segura, professor of the Department of Spanish Literature, Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature of the University of Murcia, and Aurora Gil Bohorquez, writer and professor of Language and Secondary Literature.
The jury is expected to issue its ruling at the end of October or the beginning of November.
The prize will be presented in Molina de Segura in December 2019.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura