# The Planeta Prize-winning novels of the 2000s

The ten novels that won the Premio Planeta between 2000 and 2009.

- 12 votes · 10 items
- Aug 13, 2021 · Mercedes Álvarez Diez
- https://even.best/en/l/744/the-planeta-prize-winning-novels-of-the-2000s

## Top 10

1. **Mientras vivimos — Maruja Torres** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — 2000. A mature writer and a young aspiring one in Barcelona.
2. **La hermandad de la buena suerte — Fernando Savater** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 2008. A jockey's disappearance before a big race.
3. **La canción de Dorotea — Rosa Regàs** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2001. A teacher inherits a country house and its mystery.
4. **The Dancer and the Thief — Antonio Skármeta** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2003. A thief, a young man and a dancer in amnesty-era Chile.
5. **La fortuna de Matilda Turpin — Álvaro Pombo** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2006. A family facing the mother's death.
6. **Contra el viento — Ángeles Caso** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2009. The friendship between a writer and a Cape Verdean immigrant.
7. **Pasiones romanas — Maria de la Pau Janer** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2005. A summer love in Rome.
8. **El huerto de mi amada — Alfredo Bryce Echenique** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 2002. A teenager and an older woman in 1950s Lima.
9. **Un milagro en equilibrio — Lucía Etxebarria** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 2004. A first-time mother writes to her newborn daughter.
10. **El mundo — Juan José Millás** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — 2007. Fictionalised memories of a childhood in Valencia and Madrid.

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