Overview

• Montero will receive the prize on 8 October at the Centro Cultural Conde Duque in Madrid during the LIBER book fair.
• LIBER 2025 runs from 7 to 9 October at Ifema Madrid, where the publishing sector gathers for its annual trade event.
• FGEE praised Montero as a writer close to readers and an essential public voice who champions culture and literature as tools for social development.
• Other Liber 2025 awards include best audiovisual adaptation for the film Pedro Páramo, media reading promotion for Antonio Martínez Asensio, public library recognition for Barcelona’s Biblioteca Jaume Fuster, and bookseller of the year for Librería Serendipia.
• Coverage notes her latest novel, Animales difíciles (2025), which engages ethical questions about technological development.