75 Years of the Planet: 47 Million Books, a First Prize in 1952 of 40,000 Pesetas and Writers Living (only) of Literature
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The Planet Award celebrates these days in Barcelona its 75th anniversary spurred by the "Spanish miracle" of the book sector—which has not ceased to grow since it "touched bottom" with the crisis of 2013—but also under the threat of artificial intelligence (AI), which worries and forces us to take precautions."We use different filters for all the works presented to the prize and also for all those that arrive at the editorial," explained the pre…
There are a third of Spaniards who read two or three books a year and, for many of them, the Planet Award is one of the novels they should read.
The president, José Creuheras, says that the group has consolidated its dual vocation: to spread the book and get the authors to live of the trade. The endowment, one million euros.
47 million books sold, 625,000 for each year in its 74 editions so far, the Planeta Prize remains the machine of literary promotion par excellence of Spanish letters. This year they reach their 75th anniversary and do so without changing their objectives a bit: «The prize was born with a double vocation, that of getting the maximum dissemination of the book and helping the writers to dedicate themselves to writing, something practically impossib…
To the edition of 2026 1,424 manuscripts have been submitted
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The Planet Prize is 75 years old and, to celebrate it, a novel is given away. And not just any one. Somewhere, jealously guarded, is the manuscript that, from tomorrow, will become the book of the million euros, endowment of maximums that the winner has received for five years. Among the finalists with option to podium, free argument bar and apotheosis of crossed fingers. A plot of babies stolen in Barcelona? Palataceous intrigas in the court of…
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