It's happened again: Juan del Val, the man who was proclaimed the winner of the 74th Planeta Prize, worth one million euros, was hiding behind a female pseudonym, Elvira Torres, at a gala held at the National Museum of Art of Catalonia during a day of general strike: while at the top of Montjuïc, a police officer. The Madrid novelist, screenwriter and contributor to the television program The Anthill, was chosen from among the 1,320 candidates who applied for the award, which just four years ago discovered the previously secret identity of Carmen Mola, who in this case were not one or two men, but three, Jorge Díaz, Agustín Martínez and Antonio Mercero. At least this year's finalist – who will receive 200,000 euros – was a woman, the Galician Ángela Luz Banzas, with When the wind speaks, the first novel he will publish with Planeta after a brief but intense period at Suma, a Penguin Random House imprint.