It’s one of the biggest literary plot twists of the year. During the Planeta awards in Spain , author Carmen Mola was announced as the winner of the 1 million euro award. But audience members, including Spain’s King Felipe VI, were shocked to see three men, Agustin Martinez, Jorge Diaz, and Antonio Mercero, accept the award and reveal that Mola is a collective, gender-swapped pseudonym, according to the Guardian.

Ha appena vinto il premio Planeta da 1 milione di euro, ma chi è davvero la scrittrice spagnola Carmen Mola?

The three men who wrote ‘La bestia,’ the thriller that won this year’s Planeta Prize, deny claims that they used a female pseudonym as a marketing strategy.

Kapituła nagrody literackiej Planeta – drugiej pod względem znaczenia po Nagrodzie Cervantesa w krajach języka hiszpańskiego i najwyższa na świecie pod względem finansowym (czek opiewa na milion euro) – zdecydowała się przyznać tegoroczną nagrodę Carmen Moli, autorce powieści „Bestia”.

Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. It certainly was in Spain last week. During an event to award the country’s prestigious Planeta literary prize, the famed but reclusive crime novelist Carmen Mola was actually revealed to be the creation of three male writers.

Los ecos de la polémica genera después de anunciarse el Premio Planeta de este año y descubrirse que tras el pseudónimo de Carmen Mola en realidad había tres hombres (Jorge Díaz, Agustín Martínez y Antonio Mercero) no dejan de resonar tanto en los medios como en las redes sociales.

(CNN) — Spain’s literary world has been thrown into chaos after a coveted book prize was awarded to “Carmen Mola” — a female thriller writer who turned out to be the pseudonym of three men.

The Spanish literary world was rocked on Friday night by the revelation that one of the country’s most celebrated female novelists, Carmen Mola, was in fact a work of fiction. Her books are the work of three male screenwriters: Jorge Díaz, Agustín Martínez and Antonio Mercero.

Carmen Mola, que se julgava ser o pseudónimo de escritora nascida em Madrid, autora de uma série de livros policiais que se transformaram num sucesso de vendas nos últimos anos, são, afinal, três homens. Garantem que não quiseram esconder-se “atrás de uma mulher, mas sim de um nome”, mas há quem não concorde e critique a escolha.

Kirjailijatriolla on taustaa romaanikirjailijoina sekä televisiokäsikirjoittajina. Carmen Mola -nimellä kirjoitetuissa trillereissä päähenkilö on etsivä Elena Blanco, jota kustantaja Penguin Random House kuvaa ”erikoiseksi ja yksinäiseksi naiseksi, joka rakastaa grappa-viinaa, karaokea, klassikkoautoja ja seksiä katumaastureissa.”