Spain, has written a series of thrillers centred around detective Elena Blanco.However, the three actual authors – Agustin Martínez, Jorge Diaz, and Antonio Mercero – revealed they had been using a pseudonym as they picked up the 2021 Planeta Award and a cheque worth €1 million (£843,488).Mr Mercero told Spanish newspaper El Pais: "We didn’t hide behind a woman, we hid behind a name.“I don’t know if a female pseudonym would sell more than a male one, I don’t have the faintest idea, but I doubt it.”Mola was described as a mum of three in her 40s who worked as a professor while writing up thrillers.Spanish paper El Mundo reported in an interview with the authors: “It hasn’t escaped anyone’s notice that the idea of a university professor and.
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