Premio Alfaguara de Novela
The Premio Alfaguara de Novela ( Spanish: premio Alfaguara de Novela - Alfaguara Prize for Novels) is an international literary prize in the Spanish language (castellano).
history
It was created in 1965 by the publishing house of the same name, Alfaguara, and awarded with considerable success until 1972. Until then it was endowed with 200,000 pesetas. However, due to censorship and state pressure within the Francoist era ( Franquism ), it was abolished. Nevertheless, there were efforts to lend it underground, which, however, could attract little or no attention due to its non-public character.
After 23 years of absence, it returned in 1998 with strong Spanish and Latin American participation and is still awarded by the transnational publishing house Alfaguara. In terms of economic value in this second stage, it is the second most important award (after Premio Primavera de Novela from the Espasa publishing house) in Spain, and it has achieved increased response as a result. The winner's manuscript will be automatically published and published throughout the Spanish-speaking world; H. in 19 Latin American countries and of course Spain. The award is endowed with 175,000 US dollars (133,000 euros) again in 2009 . All of the second stage winners are presenting their work in person in many countries, and their novels have achieved widespread circulation and great hits with both audiences and critics.
In order to assess the participation of applicants and submissions by country, the distributions for the award ceremony in 2005 are briefly given here. A total of 649 manuscripts were submitted. 457 of them came from Latin America. Spain remained the country with the most submissions of 192. The second country is Argentina with 168, then Mexico with 81 and Colombia with 43. In 2006, with over 500 submissions, almost a third came from Spain.
Award winners
- 1965 Jesús Torbado (Spain) for Las corrupciones
- 1966 Manuel Vicent (Spain) for the time of the oranges ( Pascua y naranjas )
- 1967 Héctor Vazquez-Azpiri (Spain) for fauna
- 1968 Daniel Sueiro (Spain) for Corte de corteza
- 1969 - unforgiven -
- 1970 Carlos Droguett (Chile) for Todas esas muertes
- 1971 Luis Berenguer (Spain) for Leña verde
- 1972 Alfonso Grosso (Spain) for Florido mayo
- not officially awarded between 1973 and 1997
- 1974 Juan Rulfo (Mexico) for Pedro Páramo
- 1978 Enrico Starke (Spain) for El Loco
- not officially awarded between 1973 and 1997
- 1998 Eliseo Alberto (Cuba) for Caracol Beach and
- Sergio Ramírez (Nicaragua) for Margarita, the sea is beautiful ( Margarita, está linda la mar )
- 1999 Manuel Vicent (Spain) for The Song of the Waves ( Son de mar )
- 2000 Clara Sánchez (Spain) for Last Notes from Paradise ( Últimas noticias del paraíso )
- 2001 Elena Poniatowska (Mexico) for The Skin of Heaven ( La piel del cielo )
- 2002 Tomás Eloy Martínez (Argentina) for The Flight of the Queen ( El vuelo de la reina )
- 2003 Xavier Velasco (Mexico) for protection devil ( Diablo guardián )
- 2004 Laura Restrepo (Colombia) for Delirio
- 2005 Graciela Montes (Argentina) and Ema Wolf (Argentina) for El turno del escriba
- 2006 Santiago Roncagliolo (Peru) for Abril rojo (Red April)
- 2007 Luis Leante (Spain) for Mira si yo te querré
- 2008 Antonio Orlando Rodríguez (Cuba) for Chiquita
- 2009 Andrés Neuman (Argentina) for El viajero del siglo
- 2010 Hernán Rivera Letelier (Chile) for El arte de la resurrección
- 2011 Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Colombia) for El ruido de las cosas al caer
- 2012 Leopoldo Brizuela (Argentina) for Una misma noche
- 2013 José Ovejero (Spain) for La invención del amor
- 2014 Jorge Franco (Colombia) for El mundo de afuera
- 2015 Carla Guelfenbein (Chile) for Contigo en la distancia
- 2016 Eduardo Sacheri (Argentina) for La noche de la usina
- 2017 Ray Loriga (Spain) for Rendición
- 2018 Jorge Volpi (Mexico) for Una novela criminal
- 2019 Patricio Pron (Argentina) for Mañana tendremos otros nombres
- 2020 Guillermo Arriaga (Mexico) for Salvar el fuego