Setenil Award for Best Story Book Published in Spain, organized by the Culture Council of the City of Molina de Segura, has become the main reference award in our country in the short story.
This is demonstrated by the large participation by publishers and authors from all over the country, having been presented to this 9th edition of 58 titles.
The prize is worth 10,000 euros for the winning author.
The jury is chaired by the writer Cristina Fernández Cubas, one of the leading figures of the story in Spanish, who in 2006 won the 3rd Prize Setenil with poor relatives of the devil.
He will be joined on the jury the writer and columnist Anthony Lucas, a partner of The World, and the critic and professor María José Pozuelo Yvancos, a contributor to ABC.
Jury is expected to issue its ruling in November.
The award will be presented in Molina de Segura in December 2012.
Winners of previous editions Setenil Award were: Alberto Mendez, for The Blind Sunflowers, Juan Pedro Aparicio, for life in white, Cristina Fernández Cubas, Kinship poor devil PÃ mies Sergi, for if you eat a lemon without faces, Oscar Esquivias at The Mark of Crete, Fernando Clemot for Tobacconists of Chiado, Francisco Lopez Serrano, by habits of chance, and David Roas by CDC.
The judges were chaired respectively by Juan Manuel de Prada, Luis Mateo Diez, Luis Alberto de Cuenca, Ana Maria Matute, Jose Maria Merino, Javier Tomeo, Andrés Neuman and Fernando Iwasaki.
LIST OF BOOKS IX BEFORE THE AWARD SETENIL 2012
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Title
Author
Editorial
Dreams, illusions and other mazes
Jesus Morata
Red Circle
The cannibals
Ivan Humanes
Unnameable Books
The months have
Soler Romero Maribel
Vision Books
Aristotle Street
Jesus Ortega
Journal of Watcher
The monster in me
Jose Ignacio Becerril Polo
Bag of bones
Flesh of My Flesh
José María Tamparillas
Bag of bones
Minor word
Juan Ramon Santos
Of the moon books
Animals and roads
Arturo Enriquez
Of the moon books
Paradise possible
Pilar Galan
Of the moon books
10
Thirst
Marino González Montero
Of the moon books
11
Lisbon
Javier Morales Ortiz
Extremadura Regional Editor
12
The loneliness of chance
Juan Cobos Wilkins
Almuzara
13
Cuentismos and mirrors
José Miguel Desuárez
eda books
14
Frictions
Paul Martin Sanchez
eda books
15
People that never was
Miguel Sanfeliu
eda books
16
Poles apart
Antonio Parra Sanz
Atlantis Editions
17
The traveler still
Ramon Rodriguez Perez
Step Zebra
18
Discrepancies
Elena Home
Talentura
19
What takes a candy
Clara Redondo
Talentura
20
The other worlds
Rosana Alonso
Talentura
21
The soft skin of the anaconda
Raul Ariza
Talentura
22
The fixer of hearts
Ricardo Reques
Alhulia
23
Those who look at the cold
Francisco Onieva
Silver Spur
24
Sweet lemons
Marian Torrejón
Certainty Books
25
The rustling of the bushes
Cesar Romero
Parenthesis
26
Small pleasures
Miguel Sanfeliu
Parenthesis
27
The guard of the fjord
Fernando Aramburu
Tusquets
28
Conversation
Gonzalo Hidalgo Bayal
Tusquets
29
Play possum
Andrew Neuman
Foam pages
30
The End of Love
Marcos Giralt Torrente
Foam pages
31
The self-absorbed
Paul Elder
Foam pages
32
The world of Empty Heads
Pedro Ugarte
Foam pages
33
The end of the white race
Eugenia Rico
Foam pages
34
Almost as wild
Isabel Gonzalez
Foam pages
35
The travel book wrong
Forced Clara
Foam pages
36
Literary Disorders
Flavia Company
Foam pages
37
The addition and subtraction
Irene Jimenez
Foam pages
38
Second Home
Margarita Leoz
Tropo Editors
39
The desert is advancing
Ubaldo Rodriguez
Alfar
40
The book of hours counted
Jose Maria Merino
Alfaguara
41
The shadow of the hours
Luis Miguel Morales Hairstyle
Red Circle
42
Vareando clouds
Jose Antonio Lopez Rastoll
Atlantis
43
Chronicles of the Impossible
Lur Sotuela
The Barraka
44
Geometry of Chance
Fernando Palazuelos
Dance of the Sun
45
Tales of helplessness
Val Thomas
Menoscuarto
46
Bottom of the table
Miguel A.
Shoe
Menoscuarto
47
The realm of nothingness
Emilio Gavilanes
Menoscuarto
48
Manual for coyotes
David Ruiz
Menoscuarto
49
Private rooms
Cristina Peri Rossi
Menoscuarto
50
Partner
Jose Carrasco Llácer
Factory Books
51
Eloquence of a stutterer
Eduardo Halfon
Pre-Texts
52
Tomorrow never talk
Eduardo Halfon
Pre-Texts
53
Stories of a god waning
Jose Mateos
Pre-Texts
54
Travel
Juan Ignacio Ferreras
The library of the labyrinth
55
In the bath
Fernando Molero Fields
Alhulia
56
Writers
Salvador Gutierrez Solis
The Blue Olive
57
Tangram
Juan Carlos Marquez
Page Break
58
Absorbed correspondence
Pablo Gutiérrez
Language of Cloth
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura