Juan del Val's advice to Isabel Allende after winning the Planeta Award: "The promo is intense"

At 84 years old, Isabel Allende has become the winner of the 75th Planeta Prize with her work The Hour Before Dawn. La Roca has echoed the news and Juan del Val, winner of the 2025 edition, has taken the opportunity to give advice to the winner.

"The promo is intense," said the writer of Vera, a love story. Although, as they have commented, Isabel Allende "is doing very well" at 84 years old, Nuria Roca's husband has recalled that the promotion involves doing "a lot of traveling" and visiting many cities.

"Well, I guess maybe they will adapt it to her in a special way because she is tough," stressed Juan del Val, who already experienced a year ago what Isabel Allende now has to experience.

The Hour Before Dawn tells the story of Alba, a woman who returns pregnant to the family home of her ancestors after having managed to escape alive from the confinement to which the authoritarian regime of Chile subjected her.