The writers react and criticize the award
The appearance of Carmen Mola was seen in a positive way at first, to say of its success and its narrative. Although in the light of time it is appreciated, what the group of Spanish women in literature calls, opportunism and dubious marketing practices, since her texts began to appeal to the conscience of women and feminist movements.
“Obviously it is a commercial strategy to take advantage of this stage in which an attempt has been made to prioritize literature written by women, or at least to give it the place that it had always been denied,” says Berna González Harbor to the magazine. WMagazín.
Of the books registered in Spain in 2018 (the year in which Mola’s first novel was published) only 32% were written by women
The criticism did not stop among the Iberian writers and writers. ″ Is this montage opportunistic in these times? Yes. As it was also when many began to write riding on different waves, they were imitations of pillars of the earth, shadows of the wind, wizard children, lords of the rings … ”, said Rosa Ribas. “Three gentlemen saw a possible vein creating a written product that combined ingredients that could work: a female protagonist + brutal and gruesome crimes + female author,” condemned the crime novel writer.
“The name generated mystery and exoticism and that in the literary market is a value, attracts, intrigue. In fact, the operation has gotten us talking about this award ”, reflected María Folguera.
A proof of this inequality in recognition is in the winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, which only 14 women have obtained
The award was not well received and the criticism has not been soft for the Spanish publishing industry that has ignored several points of the writers and the bias that exists between genres to be able to publish and in turn be awarded. As well as the limitation to the texts that women could produce. These were limited to home, beauty, family and the social.