Fernando Lara Novel Award

The Fernando Lara Novel Award (Premio Fernando Lara de Novela) is given annually in Spain by the José Manuel Lara Foundation and the Planeta publishing house to an unpublished novel in the Spanish language. The publication of the finalist (runner-up) work is not expected, although it is sometimes published by Planeta itself (as in the case of The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, finalist in 2000).

Created in 1996, it is named after the youngest son of José Manuel Lara Hernández, founder of the publishing house, and who was CEO of Grupo Planeta until his death in a traffic accident in August 1995.

The award's endowment is €120,200. It is delivered in May of the respective year.