Detrás de la flamante ganadora del millón de euros del Premio Planeta 2021, Carmen Mola, se esconden tres autores con una trilogía espeluznante ya publicada en la editorial Alfaguara.

Carmen Mola, a female novelist who won a €1m (£840,000) Spanish literary prize last week, has been revealed as a pseudonym for three men. Mola, who is published by Penguin Random House in Spain, was awarded the Planeta Prize at a ceremony in Barcelona on 15th October for her historical thriller The Beast. However, the author page for Mola on their agent’s website includes a black-and-white photo of a woman with her back turned to the camera.

The co-founder of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction says the three male authors who have been posing as Spanish female crime writer Carmen Mola should return the money they received for a big book prize – or donate it to a women’s literary cause.

Carmen Mola, the pseudonymous Spanish female writer of crime thrillers, has been revealed to be three middle-aged men. Agustín Martínez, Jorge Díaz, and Antonio Mercero revealed their identity while receiving the 2021 Planeta Award and a cheque of €1 million (£843,488).

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.