Sonsoles Ónega: “You have to experience Sant Jordi, at least once”
The writer and journalist Sonsoles Ónega considered this Tuesday that you have to experience “at least once” the Sant Jordi festival in Barcelona, where from early in the morning she has been feeling a “concentration of affection” from her many readers. With a long queue in front of the booth where he signs copies of his novel, ‘The Maid’s Daughters’, with which he won the last Planeta award, he told EFE that this is his second Book Day in the Catalan capital. and, the first time, “I couldn’t believe it” because it is “something unique in Spain.” With a pen already spent, the television presenter said she was “overwhelmed by the affection of the people”, who, in addition, did not hesitate to ask her for a selfie or a kiss, to which she agreed, getting up and sitting down without stopping. Next to her, Alfonso Goizueta, Planeta finalist with ‘The Blood of the Father’, asserts that what she is experiencing today is a “hallucination”, her first Sant Jordi. “How can there be a day like that? It’s unreal, wonderful like a dream,” he added.
