A picture, not a mirror
There was a bit of consternation at the tail end of last year in Spain when the winner of the Planeta Literary Award turned out not to be a woman (the popular crime writer Carmen Mola), but a trio of men writing under a pseudonym. As one report added rather scathingly, ‘middle-aged men’ at that.
Ouch – or ay! - as they say in downtown Madrid.
Pretending to be someone you are not as a writer is hardly new or shocking. It goes both ways, and maybe some of
