Juan Bonilla, National Narrative Award

The writer and editorial director of Zut ediciones Juan Bonilla in 2013 Illustrated Service (Automatic) / Europa Press

The writer Juan Bonilla (Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz) won the National Narrative Award this Thursday for his novel

(Seix Barral).

The jury, chaired by the general director of the Book, María José Gálvez Salvador, highlighted the book for "its powerful and transparent prose, of rhythmic narrative tension, and its analysis of the investigation as an act of exacerbated love."

The book focuses on the figure of Nahui Olin (real name, Carmen Mondragón), a Mexican poet and painter at the end of the 19th century who lived in Paris in the 20s and lived with figures such as Picasso, Diego Rivera and Henri Matisse and passed a stay in San Sebastián.

However, Mondragón also stood out for her feminist ideas, joining in the fight for the female vote in Mexico.

Bonilla has a degree in Journalism.

He is the coordinator of

magazine

and collaborates in

and

.

Among the novels he has written are

(1996), which was made into a film by Mateo Gil in 1999;

(2003), for which he won the Short Library award and has been published in ten languages ​​and

(2013) for which he won the Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Award.