Terremoto editorial: Isabel Allende gana el Premio Planeta 2026 con la secuela de ‘La casa de los espíritus’
La autora, vinculada a Plaza & Janés desde 1982, se hace con el millón de euros para publicar la segunda parte de aquella novela. El finalista es el guionista Sergio Hernández
The editorial strike on the 75th anniversary of the Planeta Prize saw writer Isabel Allende, 83, claim the award for the sequel to her first novel, La casa de los espíritus. Awarded a million euros, the prize means Planeta has gained a legendary mainstay, as Allende has been linked to the narrative imprint Plaza & Janés since 1982, when she published her inaugural title. Now, 44 years later, her second installment, La hora antes del alba, will be published under Planeta's banner.
In this follow-up, Alba Trueba returns to her ancestral home after being tortured during the dictatorship, where she becomes a chronicler of a tumultuous era. The novel opens with Alba's arrival at the family home, where she will eventually pen the events of a troubled time.
The Planeta Prize, this year, entailed just the publication of the winning work. The runner-up, Sergio Hernández, a manga script specialist from Valencia, received 200,000 euros for La añoranza, a historical novel set in Barcelona. The story follows a woman who discovers her French lover during the late 1950s had ties to a plot to assassinate poet Antonio Machado.
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