the peruvian writer gustavo rodriguez he won Alfaguara Award 2023 with his novel one hundred guinea pigsannounced this Thursday in Madrid the jury of this award endowed with 175,000 dollars.
The jury decided to award the prize to one hundred guinea pigsby the Peruvian author Gustavo Rodríguez”, announced the president of the jury, the Argentine writer Claudia Pineiro.
Is about “a tragicomic novel set in Lima today, which reflects one of the great conflicts of our time: we are increasingly long-lived societies and increasingly hostile to older people”Pineiro explained.
“You have made us laugh a lot and move a lot”added Piñeiro, addressing the winner, who intervened by video.
The author, 54 years old and born in Lima, thanked the award and assured that he wrote the work “so that we begin to talk about death more naturally, with more freshness and even with humor”.
“Without humor you can not enter these issues. We are in the era of early expiration, and we finally turned people into objects, in the long run. Just as we put the objects in storage rooms, in warehouses when, between quotes, they are no longer useful to us, I fear that this is being transferred to the human being, ”said the writer.
Rodríguez’s novel, presented under a pseudonym, was chosen from among more than 700 manuscripts to win this prize, one of the most important and best rewarded in the Spanish language.
Rodríguez is a Peruvian writer and communicator who has published the novels Achilles’ fury, your mother’s laugh (Herralde Award finalist) and The week has seven women.
newspaper contributor Tradefrom Lima, and from the magazine black labelruns a communication consultancy and is editor of the opinion portal Jugo de Caigua.
Rodríguez joins a list of authors distinguished with the Alfaguara, such as the Mexican Elena Poniatowska (2001, the skin of heaven), the Argentinian Thomas Eloy Martinez (2002, the queen’s flight) or the Colombian Juan Gabriel Vásquez (2011, The sound of the things when they fall).
Last year the Chilean won Christian Alarconfor the third paradisea novel about a man who reconstructs his past while cultivating a garden as a personal paradise.
one hundred guinea pigs It will arrive simultaneously at bookstores in Spain, Latin America and the United States on March 23.
The Alfaguara Award, by the publisher of the same name, had its first edition in 1965, and was relaunched in 1998 after not being called for a few years.
According to data from the publisher, more than 2.7 million readers “have been able to enjoy the winning works.” (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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