Planeta Prize 2025: How to follow it, finalist works, and jury
Ten finalist works are competing for the prize, worth one million euros.
BarcelonaThis Wednesday, October 15th, the Planeta Awards ceremony will be held at the National Art Museum of Catalonia. This year's 74th edition broke the record for participation, with 1,230 entries, of which only 10 were finalists. The winning manuscript will receive one million euros, and the runner-up 200,000. The jury is composed of José Manuel Blecua, Juan Eslava Galán, Luz Gabás, Pedro Gimferrer, Eva Giner, Carmen Posadas, and Belén López, director of Editorial Planeta.
When and where to watch the awards ceremony
The ceremony will begin at 11:00 p.m. and can be followed live at the ARA (Argentine National Library), as well as on the Planeta Prize, Planeta de Libros, and Casa del Libro websites, as well as on the social media platforms of the prize and the Planeta de Libros publishing house.
Finalist Works
The works and authors (some with pseudonyms) competing for the award are:
- Everyone laughs, by Noelia Espinar
- Ghosting, by Salva Rubio
- Through his great fault, by Mauro Corti
- It is not so easy to die of love, by Elvira Torres (pseudonym)
- Isn't the moon beautiful?, by Selene Noctis (pseudonym)
- Zoltar the Magician, the Pirate Roberts, and a Western Novel, by Keith Astra (pseudonym)
- The color of the rain, by Sofía García (pseudonym)
- The death of the goddess, by José Antonio Ariza
- Fate on a clock face, by Enrique Alejandro Santoyo Castro
- Where numbers are written, by Blanca Montoya Landa
The prize with the highest monetary endowment in the world
In 2021, the Planeta Prize increased its prize money from €600,000 to €1 million, becoming the award with the highest prize money in the world. The prize even surpasses the Nobel Prize, which was awarded €11 million, or just under €1 million at the current exchange rate.
Winners from previous editions
This year's edition is the 74th edition of the award, which dates back to 1952. That year, the winning text was In the night there are no roads, by Juan José Mira. More recently, last year, the winning work was Victory, by Paloma Sánchez-Garnica. In 2023 the winner was journalist Sonsoles Ónega with The Maid's Daughters. Far from Louisiana, by Luz Gabás, came in first place in 2022. If we go back to 2021, the award-winning text was The beast, of Carmen MolaThat year's edition was surrounded by controversy, not only because it was the first time a pseudonym had won the award, but also because three men were behind it: screenwriters Jorge Díaz, Antonio Mercero, and Agustín Martínez.