Madrid
Delicious literary game and fascinating six-hand writing?
Or a vulgar strategy of false marketing and vile use of women?
The revelation, during the Planeta Prize ceremony last Friday, that three men were hiding behind the female pseudonym of Carmen Mola, continues to fuel the debates in the Spanish editorial community, but also among booksellers or within of the feminist movement.
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Alfaguara, the publishing house that published the trilogy of black novels known as
The Gypsy Bride
, has never hidden that the author was not actually Carmen Mola.
The editor who received the manuscript spoke about it openly in the summer of 2018:
"We only know of this woman, if indeed it is a woman, that what she wanted to tell us"
, declared to the María Fasce period in
Figaro.
But to this banal recourse to the pseudonym, the authors and the publishing house have added a biography and justifications invented from scratch.
Fasce had thus written
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