The Planeta Prize-winning novels of the 2000s
The top 3 according to 12 votes from people: Mientras vivimos — Maruja Torres · La hermandad de la buena suerte — Fernando Savater · La canción de Dorotea — Rosa Regàs. (Updated Aug 13, 2021.)
The ten novels that won the Premio Planeta between 2000 and 2009.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 10
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1
Mientras vivimos — Maruja Torres
2000. A mature writer and a young aspiring one in Barcelona.
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2
La hermandad de la buena suerte — Fernando Savater
2008. A jockey's disappearance before a big race.
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3
La canción de Dorotea — Rosa Regàs
2001. A teacher inherits a country house and its mystery.
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4
The Dancer and the Thief — Antonio Skármeta
2003. A thief, a young man and a dancer in amnesty-era Chile.
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5
La fortuna de Matilda Turpin — Álvaro Pombo
2006. A family facing the mother's death.
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6
Contra el viento — Ángeles Caso
2009. The friendship between a writer and a Cape Verdean immigrant.
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Pasiones romanas — Maria de la Pau Janer
2005. A summer love in Rome.
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8
El huerto de mi amada — Alfredo Bryce Echenique
2002. A teenager and an older woman in 1950s Lima.
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9
Un milagro en equilibrio — Lucía Etxebarria
2004. A first-time mother writes to her newborn daughter.
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10
El mundo — Juan José Millás
2007. Fictionalised memories of a childhood in Valencia and Madrid.
How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.
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Comments (4)
El Planeta siempre fue más comercial que literario.
Pues Pombo y Millás son escritores enormes, ese año acertaron.
El mundo de Millás me encantó.
La fortuna de Matilda Turpin de Álvaro Pombo, de las mejores del Planeta.