Máximo Huerta, Nativel Preciado, and Vanessa Monfort Celebrate 30 Years of Literature in Valencia

The three winners of the Primavera Novel Prize will participate in a round table at El Corte Inglés de Colón as a prelude to the award ceremony.

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Generic image of a library interior with wooden bookshelves and a podium with a microphone, with warm lighting.

Máximo Huerta, Nativel Preciado, and Vanessa Monfort, winners of the Primavera Novel Prize, will participate today, April 15, in a round table at El Corte Inglés de Colón in Valencia to celebrate the award's 30th anniversary.

This event serves as a prelude to the Primavera Novel Prize ceremony, which for the first time in its history will be held in the city of Valencia. The round table, scheduled for 7:30 PM, will bring together the three authors to commemorate the 30th anniversary of this prestigious award, established as a key reference in Spanish literature.
The writers will share their experiences and what it meant for each of them to be a winner in their respective editions. Nativel Preciado, a journalist and writer, won the prize in 2007 for her novel Camino de Hierro. Máximo Huerta, a Valencian journalist and writer, was awarded in 2014 for La noche soñada. Meanwhile, Vanessa Monfort is the most recent laureate, in 2025, for her work La Toffana.
The Primavera Novel Prize, endowed with 100,000 euros, is an award created by the publisher Espasa and El Corte Inglés three decades ago. This year's award ceremony will take place on Thursday, April 16, at 7 PM at the Lonja de la Seda, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of its declaration as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
This year, the prestigious award has gone to the work La educación del monstruo, by Elvira Mínguez, an actress and writer. This novel explores Spanish emigration to Germany and collective memory, recognized for its solid narrative. The jury for this edition was chaired by Carmen Riera and composed of Antonio Soler, Nativel Preciado, Gervasio Posadas, and David Cebrián.