# The Planeta Prize-winning novels of the 1990s

The ten novels that won the Premio Planeta between 1990 and 1999.

- 61 votes · 10 items
- Sep 15, 2021 · Mercedes Álvarez Diez
- https://even.best/en/l/824/the-planeta-prize-winning-novels-of-the-1990s

## Top 10

1. **El jinete polaco — Antonio Muñoz Molina** (8 · ▲10 ▼2) — 1991. An interpreter reconstructs his family's history in Mágina.
2. **El manuscrito carmesí — Antonio Gala** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — 1990. Boabdil, the last Nasrid king of Granada, in the first person.
3. **Death in the Andes — Mario Vargas Llosa** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — 1993. A corporal investigates disappearances in the Peruvian highlands.
4. **La prueba del laberinto — Fernando Sánchez Dragó** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — 1992. A journey between religion and esotericism.
5. **El desencuentro — Fernando Schwartz** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1996. A novel by the diplomat and journalist Fernando Schwartz.
6. **Little Indiscretions — Carmen Posadas** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1998. A cook dead in a cold store and the secrets of a dinner party.
7. **Melocotones helados — Espido Freire** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1999. A young painter and her family's history; she won at 25.
8. **La cruz de San Andrés — Camilo José Cela** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — 1994. A woman from A Coruña and a sect.
9. **The Tempest — Juan Manuel de Prada** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 1997. An art professor, a murder and a Giorgione painting in Venice.
10. **La mirada del otro — Fernando G. Delgado** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — 1995. A mature woman's intimate life in her own words.

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