US EditionDavid Uclés Wins Nadal Award
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The Andalusian writer David Uclés was recognized with the Nadal Prize 2026 for The City of Dead Lights, a novel that takes place for 24 hours in a postwar Barcelona plunged into darkness.
The Andalusian writer David Uclés won the 82nd Nadal Prize this Tuesday, with 30,000 euros, with the novel The City of Dead Lights, set in a Barcelona immersed in darkness and in which literary authors have a leading role, the jury announced.Presented to the prize called by the publishing house Destino under the title Ruge another summer day and the pseudonym Oriol Arce, the novel plunges the Catalan capital in a darkness that seems provoked by …
In 2024, when 'The peninsula of empty houses' (Siruela) was published, the life of David Uclés began to take a turn of 180 degrees. 28 editions later, with more than 300,000 copies sold, now takes another giant step with the recognition of the dean prize of Spanish literature, the Nadal. In this case, for his new novel, 'The City of Dead Lights' (Destiny) , a twist to his bet for realism with fantastic elements, on this occasion centered in a Ba…
The author of the supersales ‘The peninsula of empty houses’ gathers Laforet, Rodoreda, Bolaño and Freddie Mercury in postwar Barcelona. The philosopher Francesc Torralba rises with the Josep Pla Prize
Who was going to tell David Uclés a year ago that he would win the Nadal prize. It was in January 2025 that he first went to El Palace, where he held the ceremony in which the Josep Pla was also given, that this 2026 was taken by the philosopher Francesc Torralba. Úbeda told the experience in La Vanguardia: “Acaricio a Lorazepam in his pocket. I was never in a five stars before. The closest thing was the Parador de Jaén, where luxury did not com…
The Nadal Prize returns to its most literary essence with David Uclés (Ubeda, 1990) and his novel The City of Dead Lights, with Barcelona as stage and even honoring...
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