BARCELONA SPAIN, SPAIN - OCTOBER 16: Planeta Prize-winning writers Jorge Diaz, Agustin Martinez and Antonio Mercero at the 70th edition of the Planeta Novel Prize at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, on 15 October 2021, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The Planeta Novel Prize was created in 1952 by Jose Manuel Lara, with the aim of promoting authors who write in Spanish. The prize is awarded to the author who has managed to convince the jury for his or her originality, attractiveness or for the emotion he or she transmits in his or her novel. This year the Planeta Prize has increased its prize money to one million euros, and to 200,000 euros for the finalist. With this increase, which coincides with the 70th edition of the award and which will be applied, the Planeta is now on a par with the Nobel Prize for Literature, which is worth 10 million Swedish crowns, approximately one million euros. (Photo By Kike Rincon/Europa Press via Getty Images)
