If not money -- at €18,000 it's chicken-feed by Spanish literary prize standards (though not, you'll note, by American ones ...) -- the Premio Nadal at least has history on its side: apparently it's the oldest running Spanish novel prize, and with Carmen Laforet's Nada it started with an impressive bang.
They've now announced this year's winner: Estaba en el aire by Sergio Vila-Sanjuán, selected from 229 submissions; see, for example, the report in El mundo.
Vila-Sanjuán isn't well-known abroad -- but impressively one of his titles is available in (recent) translation: A Barcelona Heiress. But only as an ebook. This is one of the first publications from Barcelona eBooks (who really might want to ... elaborate on their site). See the Open Road (the folks behind Barcelona eBooks) publicity page, or download your copy from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
Vila-Sanjuán isn't well-known abroad -- but impressively one of his titles is available in (recent) translation: A Barcelona Heiress. But only as an ebook. This is one of the first publications from Barcelona eBooks (who really might want to ... elaborate on their site). See the Open Road (the folks behind Barcelona eBooks) publicity page, or download your copy from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.