The prize is endowed with 175,000 dollars, a sculpture of Martin Chirino and simultaneous publication throughout the Spanish-speaking territory. All writers of legal age who wish to be eligible for the award, whatever their nationality or origin.
In addition to Piñeiro, the jury is made up of Javier Rodríguez Marcos, Carolina Orloff, Rafael Arias García and Juan Tallónrelevant members of the Spanish and Latin American cultural and literary world, and by the editorial director of Alfaguara, Pilar Reyes (with voice but no vote).
Piñeiro has published in Alfaguara the novels Thursday’s widows (2005), Clarín Novel Award 2005; ellen knows (2007), LiBeraturpreis Award 2010; Yours (2008); The cracks of Jara (2009), Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award 2010; Betibou (2011); A communist in underpants (2013); a little luck (2015); the curses (2017) and cathedrals (2021), winner of the Valencia Negra Best Novel Award 2021 and the Dashiell Hammett Award for the best noir novel in Spanish published in 2020, as well as stories for children and plays. In 2018, Alfaguara published a volume of her collected tales, Who does not.
Javier Rodriguez Marcos (Nuñomoral, Cáceres, Spain, 1970) coordinates the literary information for Babelia, the cultural supplement of El País; Caroline Orloff -born in Buenos Aires and based in Edinburgh- is a translator and researcher of Latin American literature with publications on cinema, politics, and translation theory, while Juan Tallon (Vilardevós, Ourense, 1975) has a degree in Philosophy and is a journalist.
The Alfaguara awards, whose first edition was held in 1998, have been translated into numerous languages and have received the best reviews internationally, in addition to important awards.
The last Alfaguara Award novel was for the third paradise (2022), from Christian Alarcon“set in various places in Chile and Argentina, where the protagonist reconstructs the history of his ancestors, while delving into his passion for cultivating a garden, in search of a personal paradise,” according to the jury.
Source: Ambito
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