MADRID – Spanish writer and journalist Angeles Caso has won the country's most lucrative literary award for a novel about the ordeals of women from poor countries who emigrate in search of a better life.
The Premio Planeta was announced late Thursday at a ceremony in Barcelona. It carries a ⁈0 ($890,000) cash stipend.
Caso's novel "Contra el Viento" (Against the Wind) is about the plight of a woman from Cape Verde who emigrates first to Portugal and then settles in Spain, and how she suffers along the way.
Caso said the character is based on a woman who worked for her as a nanny and helped look after Caso's daughter.
In an acceptance speech, Caso called such women "21st-century heroines."