Manuel Marlasca: Winner at the 2025 Gijón Black Week

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SILVERIO CAÑADA MEMORIAL PRIZE

TÚ BAILAS Y YO DISPARO (Destino, 2024)
Best debut crime novel published in 2024

Journalist and writer Manuel Marlasca has received this UNANIMOUS award for his literary debut Tú bailas y yo disparo.

The jury — composed of Carolina Sarmiento, Alicia G. García, Leticia Sánchez Ruiz, and Carmen Molina as secretary — unanimously praised the originality and strength of a novel that marks the emergence of a new voice in Spanish noir fiction.

In his speech, the writer and journalist paid tribute to his literary agent, Mónica Carmona:
Without her, this book wouldn’t exist — and neither would I, as a novelist.

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