28/04/2010
In line with its steadfast commitment to forge ties with the world of culture, the Grupo Hotusa is launching the sixth edition of its Eurostars Hotels Travel Story Prize. This competition, organised in conjunction with the University of Barcelona and RBA Libros S.A, will award a single 18,000 euro prize to the narrative that the jury deems is the best story or set of stories submitted to the competition.

With a length of at least 80 and at most 150 doubled-spaced, single-sided pages, the originals must be written in Spanish and can be either a single story or up to three independent stories, as long as together they do not exceed the maximum length. Likewise, the sine qua non condition of the stories submitted is that they must be original and unpublished, and that they have not been submitted to any other prize.

Candidates must submit five bound copies of their story to the Unidad de Comunicación de la Universitat de Barcelona (Gran Vía de les Corts Catalanes, 585. 08007. Barcelona). The deadline for submission is the 31st of May 2010. A winner of the competition must be declared, and stories sent by email will not be accepted.

The jury appointed to award the prize will include a representative of the University of Barcelona, a representative of RBA Libros S.A., a representative of Grupo Hotusa, two acclaimed writers and one secretary with voice but no vote. Jury members in previous editions of the prize included writers Alfredo Conde, Ángela Vallvey (2007 and 2008), Anna María Moix and Eduardo Mendicutti (2006), and journalists Ángela Rodicio and Jon Sistiaga (2005).

One of the major attractions of this prize is the fact that the winning story is distributed free of charge in more than 4,000 rooms in the 52 hotels in the Eurostars Hotels chain in Spain, several other European countries and Latin America. Right now, the guests of the Eurostars Hotels chain, which belongs to the Grupo Hotusa, may peruse Pedro Páramo ya no vive aquí (Pedro Páramo No Longer Lives Here), the book by Paco Nadal that won last year’s edition, a total of 10,000 copies of which have been published. In each edition, the winning story is also published in an edition to be sold in bookshops run by RBA Libros.

The complete list of conditions for the 6th Eurostars Hotels Travel Story Prize (attached) may be viewed on the blog of ESTAR Magazine.