Madrid

One of the contestants of Catch Me If You Can of Castilla-La Mancha television has starred in a great moment that has not taken long to go viral on social networks. Salva was regarding to win the program’s jackpot, 25,100 euros, this Wednesday, when the answer she gave to the question left everyone stunned.

The presenter of the contest, Frank Blanco, asked the contestant: “Who was the first Spanish writer to be a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature?” Salva, hesitantly, responded: “I’m hesitating between three or four. I’m going to tell you one,” to which Blanco asked him the question once more.

“We want to know for 25,100 euros, Salva, who was the first Spanish writer to be a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature?” the presenter repeated. The final answer of the contestant was Sara Mago, to the surprise and attentive gaze of all the spectators. “That’s your answer,” Blanco seconded.

“I was between Sara Mago and Carmen Mola”

This moment has provoked hundreds of comments and reactions on social networks, and many have wanted to make jokes. “I was among five: Sara Mago, Ramón, Cajal, Ortega or Gasset,” wrote one user. “I was between Sara Mago and Carmen Mola,” responded another.

First of all, it must be clarified that Sara Mago does not exist. Who Salva might have been referring to was the writer José Saramago, author of Essay on Blindness, The Intermittencies of Death or Memorial of the Convent, and who in 1998 received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

However, the answer that the program was looking for and, therefore, the correct one, was Concha Espina. This writer, famous for The Maragata Sphinx o High altarwas a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature for the first time in 1926, and later also received the nomination in 1927 and 1928.