He took the name of Cecilia Boehl, a 19th-century Spanish novelist who wrote with a male pseudonym to avoid discrimination, and participated in the contest with a poem which was described as "a cry of female self-affirmation". Winning the prize of books worth 12,000 pesetas (80 dollars), Gomez claimed to pick it up for his wife, but left no doubt as to who the real author was. The women‘s association Clara Campoamor, which staged the contest in Coslada near Madrid, has not asked Gomez to return the prize.