The Basque Literature Academy has awarded this year’s prize: The novel Pleibak by Miren Amuriza has been awarded the prize for the best literary work of 2024. The vote was attended by 218 academics who had to decide between two finalists: The Pleibas of Amuriza and the fifth soul of Francesco Pasquale of Unai Elorriaga. After three votes, the first one received the prize for the best literary piece of the past year, which Amuriza will receive on June 5.

Amuriza depicts two young people from the 2000s in the novel Pleibak: Jone and Poli, Poli and Jone. The difficult times of his youth were joined by the turbulent times of the town, and the renewable has launched a story that has been a mirror for many people. Written in an intense oral record, the book’s protagonist is a close and complex relationship of friendship. “Many of us have had the first ‘relationship’ with a friend, even if we don’t identify him as such,” Amuriza explained in an interview with LARA.

In addition to the works of Amuriza and Elorriaga, there have been other novels in the selection of the academy, among them the funny Men of Joxean Agirre, the Hetero of Uxue Alberdi and a Coca-Cola of Beñat Sarasola with you.