Lucía Solla Sobral, RNE’s ‘El Ojo Crítico’ 2025 Prize for Narrative for the novel ‘You will eat flowers’

The Prize ‘The Critical Eye’ 2025 National Radio of Spain in the Narrative category has gone to the Galician writer Lucía Solla Sobral, author of the novel ‘You will eat flowers’, which “credits the voice of a competent, original and mature narrator”, as the jury has pointed out.

As reported this Wednesday by RTVE, the ruling of the XXXVI edition of this award highlights that Lucía Solla Sobral “investigates the privacy of a young woman subjected to the manipulation of her partnerdescribing the slow construction of patriarchal power through a first-person narrator who is close and credible in her love, her astonishment, and her fear.”

In the opinion of the jury, “her literary resources, her expressive capacity and the subtlety of her observations make the violence exerted on a single woman become universal violence, that concerns and concerns each and every one of its readers“.

The jury was made up of the writers Luis Mateo Díez, winner of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, National Prize for Spanish Literature and National Prize for Fiction on two occasions; Manuel Rivas, National Prize for Spanish Literature; Paco Cerdá, National Fiction Prize and El Ojo Crítico Fiction Prize in the previous edition; and Laura Fernández, El Ojo Crítico Narrative Award 2021.

Almudena Amador and Óscar Brox, booksellers from the Ramón Llull Bookstore in Valencia, Cultural Bookstore Award 2025, have also participated. Along with them, Laura Martínez Ruibal and Ángeles Caso, directors and presenters of ‘El Ojo Crítico’; and Susana Santaolalla, RNE journalist specialized in literature and director of the ‘Libros de arena’ program.

With this ruling the list of winners of the 2025 ‘El Ojo Crítico’ Awards is completed, in the absence of knowing only the Special Award