Josan Hatero and Alba Quintas, winners of the SM Steamboat and Wide Angle Awards

‘The memory of bicycles’ by Josan Hatero Mosteiro and ‘The fourth life of Blanca Cuervo’ by Alba Quintas Garciandia They have been the winning works of SM’s Barco de Vapor and Gran Angular Awards. Each of the awards is worth 35,000 euros.

In this edition we have received 207 originals for the El Barco de Vapor award and 108 for the Wide Angle“an excellent participation that reflects the variety and richness of proposals presented,” according to the editorial. Both works are now on sale.

The jury of the SM El Barco de Vapor 2026 Award has chosen the work of Josan Hatero Mosteiro as the best children’s literature story “because it exudes sincerity, warmth and optimism, and returns the emotion of the most important first times in lifelike learning to ride a bike.” “It is a tender and sensitive book that brings out the best in its characters and its readers,” continues the jury.

Regarding the SM Gran Angular 2025 Award, the jury has recognized that ‘The Fourth Life of Blanca Cuervo’ is “an accurate and painful portrait of the reality that a part of the youth for whom dreaming about the future is difficult and sometimes impossible“.

“A thriller constructed with intelligence through different points of view; and an invitation to reflect on the dark side of easy solutions,” the jury continues in its ruling.

At the press conference in which the winners were announced, Berta Márquez, manager of Children’s and Young People’s Literature at SM, stressed that, “in these turbulent times in which the world has changed so muchbooks and reading help to ask questions and try to understand each other.

The official awards ceremony It will take place next May 12 at a gala in Madrid; and both books have just gone on sale.