Celebrated female author ends up being 3 middle-aged guys

A popular female author behind a series of ultra-violent Spanish criminal offense books has actually ended up being a pseudonym utilized by 3 guys.

When ‘Carmen Mola’ won the the EUR1million (₤845,000) Planeta literary reward, her developers chose to lastly expose themselves.

Former television scriptwriters Agust ín Mart ínez, Jorge Díaz and Antonio Mercero went public and declared the reward at a television event on Friday, participated in by the Spanish king.

It was currently popular that Mola was a pseudonym, however lots of will have been shocked to see the middle aged male trio walk on phase and discuss themselves.

Their protagonist is investigator Elena Blanco, a ‘peculiar and solitary woman, who loves grappa, karaoke, classic cars and sex in SUVs’, according to publisher Penguin Random House.

However she does not include in the book that won the Planeta reward, La Bestia, which has to do with a serial killer in an 1834 cholera epidemic.

Mola was formerly promoted on her site as being a university teacher and mother-of-three who significantly valued her personal privacy.

In a previous interview the authors stated they required privacy to ‘protect a settled life that has nothing to do with literature’.

But Spanish paper El Mundo formerly kept in mind: ‘It hasn’ t got away anybody’s notification that the concept of a university teacher and mom of 3, who taught algebra classes in the early morning then composed ultra-violent, macabre books in scraps of spare time in the afternoon, produced a fantastic marketing operation.’

Spain’s Women’s Institute consisted of Mola’s book ‘The Girl’ in a list of books by female authors that ‘help us understand the reality and the experiences of women’.

But the 3 guys, all in their 40 s and 50 s, rejected selecting a female pseudonym to assist offer their books.

Mart ínez stated they created the name Carmen after ‘a minute and a half of throwing around names of men, women, foreigners’.

They informed Spanish paper El Pa ís: ‘We didn’ t conceal behind a lady, we concealed behind a name. I do not understand if a female pseudonym would offer more than a male one, I do not have the faintest concept, however I question it.’

But not everybody is encouraged, consisting of feminist, author and activist Beatriz Gimeno.

The previous Spanish Women’s Institute tweeted: ‘Quite apart from utilizing a female pseudonym, these people have actually invested years doing interviews.

‘It’ s not simply the name– it’s the phony profile that they have actually utilized to take in readers and reporters. They are fraudsters.’

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