Overview
- The jury announced Klein as the winner on June 16, 2026, selecting her novel from 683 manuscripts and awarding €30,000 plus pan‑Hispanic publication set for October 2026.
- El amor inventado centers on Miranda K., a documentary filmmaker who uncovers that her celebrated journalist husband fabricated reporting, and the jury called the book an ambitious probe of public and private imposture.
- Klein submitted the manuscript under the pseudonym 'Vera Mens' and says the novel is a complete fiction built from real‑world materials about cases of journalistic fabrication.
- The prize jury was made up of Ángeles González‑Sinde, Elena Medel, Sabina Urraca, Lola Larumbe and María Fasce, and it named Belén López Peiró's Estado de distancia as a finalist.
- Founded in Barcelona in 1960 and relaunched in 2023, the Premio Lumen aims to amplify women writers across Spanish‑language markets and the award will raise Klein’s visibility in Iberian and Latin American publishing circles.