On the occasion of his 46th birthday, Sonsoles nega grants an exclusive interview to Hola! magazine. where he talks about the good time he is going through not only on a personal level but also on a professional level. And the journalist and writer is the latest winner of the prestigious Planeta award thanks to her seventh novel The Maid’s Daughters. An award with which he also receives a financial amount of one million euros. But what do you plan to invest it in?
The Planeta award is the conclusion of a period of many years of writing. There is a lot of work behind it, some sleepless nights and the sometimes tortuous path of literature, the presenter of And Now Sonsoles, the leading afternoon program on Antena 3, begins by saying. Was it an early birthday gift?, they ask her from Hola!. Gifts are not paid for by the Treasury…, he responds with his usual sense of humor.
As for the million euros, Sonsoles says he has not yet collected it. But I have many debts and I will pay them off. What ninety percent of Spaniards owe are the houses.. I have a mortgage like everyone else, so trying to plug holes tells about the destination of that juicy money.
Sonsoles denies that there are several production companies interested in bringing his work to film or television. It’s still early, but I would like it to happen because it hasn’t happened to me before with any book. I would love to see my characters on screen. and learn how to make a script, but there is still nothing, he says in the aforementioned medium.
A feminist novel
Sonsoles nega has won the Planeta award with a feminist novel that vindicates the women of the canning industry in Galicia del Mar in 1900. I thought I had done the most difficult live shows of my life, but it was clear that I still had something nice in store. I confess that it is the most difficult of my life. “My voice shakes,” he expressed in his speech after collecting the award.
The novel is about brave women who fought at sea and who worked there for a hundred years and continue to do so without any recognition. So, finally, in The Maid’s Daughters we will have a patron in the sea industryalso continued.
