The jury in the northern city of Santander said Trueba's third novel showed that the film director, screen writer and actor was more than just "a filmmaker who also writes, because someone who writes a novel like this is not just passing through literature."
It said "Saber Perder" is a novel about "how to survive when everything around you is collapsing."
Among the films Trueba directed was the award-winning "La Buena Vida" ("The Good Life"). He also co-wrote the screenplay for the film "Two Much", starring Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas, a movie that was directed by his brother Fernando Trueba.
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