Molina Foix Wins Literature Prize

MADRID, Spain - Spanish author Vicente Molina Foix has won Spain's Narrative Literature award, which highlights recently published work in Spanish or another of the country's official languages, the Culture Ministry said.

Molina Foix's Spanish language novel "El abrecartas" ("The Letter Opener"), which depicts history through a letter-writing relationship, claimed the government sponsored $21,225) prize, the ministry said in a statement.

Molina Foix, 61, was born in the town of Elche close to the Mediterranean near the eastern port city of Alicante and has lectured on Spanish literature at Oxford university in Britain.

The book, which the author called "a novel by letters," begins by describing a literary relationship between poet Federico Garcia Lorca, who was killed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, and one of his close friends.