Lloret Negro. Police novel in Lloret de Mar

En Lloret de Mar A literary-criminal festival has been held. This is a geographical area (Girona and the Costa Brava) where a cultural initiative dedicated to the promotion of the black genre was missing, like many others that have flourished in recent years throughout the country. Lloret de Mar it is one of the most popular coastal cities in the Mediterranean among tourists. Now it will also have the Black Gender Festival of the Costa Brava Lloret Black, In March.

The organizers explain that this is a very good opportunity to publicize Lloret de Mar in its most cultural aspect. The festival will also promote guided tourist visits to a coastal town with architecture steeped in history and social symbolism, and to the Noucentista gardens of Saint Clotilde, located in a place of great beauty with views over the sea. This Festival joins the prize awarded by RBA to the group directed by Richard Rodrigo and that it is the largest endowed in the world.

RBA, the Black Series and the detective novel awards

Rebuildables is the reference in Spain of the crime novel genre. As a stimulus to the writers of this type of novels, the RBA publishing house and as a personal commitment of its President Ricardo Rodrigo, the RBA Prize for Detective Novel was created, which today is the largest amount that exists in the world. This prize, which was awarded for the first time in 2007 and reached its XI edition last year (2017), has become the largest endowed in the world dedicated to the noir genre, with the delivery of 125.000 euros for the winner. It is convened at an international level and the winner is announced on the first Thursday of September. The first writer to win the award was Francisco González Ledesma, in 2007, with the manuscript "A neighborhood novel." The last award was presented in the RBA auditorium by Ricardo Rodrigo and the winner was Benjamin Black, pseudonym of John Banville.

Ricardo Rodrigo and the Police Novel

Richard Rodrigo He is an Argentine who, since his arrival in Spain in 1971, has developed a prolific literary activity. In that country he began his activities collaborating with Carlos Barral and later joined the Bruguera Editorial, where after having held various positions he was appointed Editorial Director in 1977. From that position he initiated profound changes in the publishing house's policy, directing it towards the publication of literary collections.

In 1981 together with Carmen Balcells y Robert Altarriba formed the company RBA, owner of 60% of the satirical magazine on Thursday and magazine editor National Geographic, Readings y Week, among other. In the field of books, he created the Black Series, perhaps the most important collection of the police genre in Spain, in which he offers readers an overview of the activity since its inception (more than 300 published titles).

Who can participate for the RBA Black Series prize?

There are many national and international writers who are interested in participating in such a renowned award (generally between 150 and 200 manuscripts are submitted), but most of the proposals come from Spain, Latin America, Nordic, English and French speaking countries. . The prize has its own page on Wikipedia, where details about its foundation and list of winners are offered. This highlights the convening power and the growing interest in the detective genre by the general public.

Winners of the RBA International Black Novel Award