The Ecuadorian publisher the fakirwhose main face is that of the writer Gabrielle Germaninvites writers for the second consecutive year to participate with their texts in the Independent Latin American Nonfiction Award.
“The first edition of the award was declared void by the jurors (Cristina Rivera Garza, Diajanida Hernández and Nona Fernández)”, They make it clear on their website. The juries of this second call will be Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Schneider Carpeggiani, and Josefina Licitra.
The authors may participate with essays, chronicles, reports, biographies, diaries, aphorisms or correspondence that are unpublished. “It is an invitation to develop critical essays that think about the crisis, the mutations that we are going through, the crucial phenomena of our always modern era”, describe.
This award is born from an alliance between some Latin American publishers such as: Elephanta (Mexico), Trabalis (Puerto Rico), Luna Libros (Colombia), Libros del Fuego (Venezuela), El Cuervo (Bolivia), Fósforo (Brazil), Criatura (Uruguay), and Godot (Argentina).
The author of the winning work will sign a single publishing contract with each of the publishing houses that make up the organization of the award. That is, his manuscript will be published in Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Uruguay.
“We are looking for people who are really interested in reflecting and that is not so much interested in winning a monetary prize, but because that text circulates and opens a debate in each country about what is proposed in that text,” Alemán said last year in a conversation with this newspaper.
The contract will contemplate the payment of 10% of royalties on the sale price to the public of the book agreed by the publisher of each country; ensures the organization of the prize.
The submitted works must be signed with a pseudonym and uploaded in a .pdf or .doc file to the page www.premiodenoficcion.com until July 31. The texts that do not arrive with a pseudonym will be automatically eliminated. The length of the texts is a minimum of 28,000 words and a maximum of 75,000 words. Check the kisses on the website. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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