Francisco Umbral PRIZE II Book of the Year 2012

Francisco Umbral Foundation , has awarded the threshold Francisco II Book of the Year Award to “Head on fire” (Galaxia Gutemberg) writer and academic Luis Mateo Díez.

On 23 January the Jury met to decide the award of the second edition in the House Reader Sanchez Ruiperez Foundation.

The winner will receive 12.000€ and a sculpture by Alberto Heart to be delivered at an event organized by the Community of Madrid in collaboration with the Foundation in the month of February.

The event was attended by members of the Jury: former Minister Cesar Antonio Molina, critic Santos Sanz Villanueva, the poet Carlos Fernandez Aganzo, Cultural ABC director Fernando Rodriguez Lafuente, writer and lecturer Fanny Rubio, writer and journalist Juan Cruz and academic Jury President Carmen Iglesias; They also asitieron The Deputy Minister of Culture Carmen Gonzalez Madrid, General Director Isabel Rosell, Majadahonda Mayor Narciso de Foxa and President and widow of writer Spain Suarez.

Santos Sanz Villanueva stressed excellence and obviousness of this ruling because "quality awards and honors, may like or not the reader, but it is questionable whether Luis Mateo is in the top level of literary quality. In the book together imaginative records and different expressions in each story, everything behind a strange literature that delves into the strange and unusual is the world, explores what Luis Mateo called diseases of the soul ".

The first edition went to “The Four Corners” Manuel Longares