Spain's Clara Sanchez wins prestigious Nadal Prize

Famous author and newspaper columnist Clara Sanchez has won Spain's most prestigious and oldest award for literature, the Nadal prize, for her novel that examines the life of a former Nazi death camp guard who relocated to Spain after the war. The novel Lo que esconde tu nombre - which means 'What your name hides' - is based on a true story. It tells the story of an elderly former Nazi who has forged a new life on Spain's eastern coast and another octogenarian, a survivor of the Mauthausen concentration camp, who lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A third character, Sandra, a young pregnant woman who lives next door to the erstwhile Nazi, gradually discovers her neighbor's true identity. The Nadal Prize jury selected Sanchez's novel from among 261 works submitted this year. The jury members were German Gullon, Lorenzo Silva, Andres Trapiello, Angela Vallvey, and publisher Emili Rosales.