Overview

• Spain’s Ministry of Culture awarded Candela Sierra the Premio Nacional del Cómic, which carries a €30,000 endowment.
• The jury meeting in Madrid selected Lo sabes aunque no te lo he dicho, citing its effective use of narrative and graphic resources.
• The Ministry’s communiqué praised the book’s incisive humor and its focus on the superficiality of relationships and daily communication problems.
• Sierra, born in Ronda in 1990, studied Fine Arts in Granada with stays in Brussels and Quebec and completed residencies in Córdoba and Angoulême.
• The announcement comes as other National Prizes are unveiled, with poetry and dramatic literature already named and the Music award due Wednesday.