The authors deny that they deliberately chose the female pseudonym to increase book sales. “We didn’t hide behind the female factor, we just hid behind the name.”
In Spain The author, who has appeared as Carmen Mola, has given numerous interviews over the years in which she has said the following about herself: a professor of mathematics at university, a mother of three approaching in her fifties who writes brutally violent thrillers in her spare time.
However, the € 1 million Planeta Literature Prize attracted the real characters behind the pseudonym, three men: Agustín Martínez, Jorge Díaz and Antonio Mercero.
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The writers’ trio has a background as novelists as well as television screenwriters. In the thrillers called Carmen Mola, the protagonist is detective Elena Blanco, described by publisher Penguin Random House as “a special and lonely woman who loves Grappa liquor, karaoke, classic cars, and off-road sex.”
The authors deny that they deliberately chose the female pseudonym to increase book sales. “We didn’t hide behind the female factor, we just hid behind the name,” Antonio Mercero tells the Spanish newspaper El País.
In the Spanish media, on the other hand, Carmen Mola garnered a lot of publicity because of the tension between the supposed author and the works. The story of a mother of three who, in addition to her university career, wrote ultra-violent macabre novels in her spare time “is a really good marketing operation,” writes the Spanish magazine El Mundo.
Feminist, author and activist Beatriz Gimeno criticizes the writers for years of creating a public image of the female character behind the Carmen Mola books.
“In addition to using the woman’s name, these guys have been giving interviews for years. It’s not just about the name but the fake character they’ve used to attract readers and journalists. They are scammers, ”Gimeno writes on Twitter.
The writers ’agent has used Carmen Mola for presentations on their website picture of a woman looking away from the camera. In the marketing text, Mola is called “Elena Ferrante of Spain”.
Planet Award is an award set up by a publisher of the same name to look for new manuscripts for publication.
The writers behind the name Carmen Mola had put a script in the race that didn’t adventure Elena Blanco. The new novel is a historical thriller set in the time of the color epidemic and tells the story of a serial killer chopping women.
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