Antonio Fontana from Malaga wins the 2020 Gijón Café Novel Award | BE Gijón | Today for Today Gijón

Fed up, angry women … women up to their noses. This is the engine that moves the characters of ‘So far we have come’, novel signing Antonio Fontana and who has taken the Novel Café Gijón Award this 2020. A story starring a group of women over eighty years old tired of their isolation and loneliness.

According to the author, “They are women who have survived with the three letters birrias who has given them life. Not a single ace. And with that they have pulled forward. I think more than feminists they were pre feminists. “

The judge, which had to meet for the first time in the history of the award telematically and which is made up of Mercedes Monmany, Rosa Regàs, Antonio Colinas, Marcos Giralt Torrente and José María Guelbenzu, as president, has highlighted the “vision as subtle as unusual of old age” that presents the work and the “breaking of stereotypes” by the author. “Why do we put these wise, intelligent and experienced people away in residences?” Fontana asked in SER Gijón.

El malagueño, cultural journalist linked to ABC and author of other titles such as ‘Sol poniente’ (Malaga Novel Award 2017), ‘Hostal Parisien, Detailed map of hell’, ‘El perdón de los sins’ (finalist in the 2003 Gijón Café Award) and ‘De hombre a hombre’, has stated in an interview in Today for Today Gijón to be “very happy to be part of the list of authors that make up this award. It is a luxury. A very prestigious award “.

The novel tells the story of a group of old women living together in the Peña Hincada residence, located in an undetermined place in the province of Malaga. They are women who have time to ruminate on their obsessions and recall the lives they left behind drawing a ruthless portrait of men, with large doses of incorrectness and, above all, black humor. “In the story there are male characters, but in the background, like troupes. They are ridiculous. The leading role is everything for them.”

The Novel Café Gijón Award, called by the City Council of Gijón, has an endowment of € 20,000, and ‘2007 Ediciones Siruela’ publishes the winning works of the contest.

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