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The writer has gained the distinguished award with the novel ‘One Hundred Guinea Pigs’A piece about outdated age and dignity, class violence and worry of an unsure futureThe award is endowed with $175,000
The Peruvian writer Gustavo Rodríguez has been acknowledged with the XXVI Alfaguara Prize for novels for the work One Hundred Guinea Pigs, “a shifting e-book that defends dignity to the final penalties”, the jury identified.
One hundred guinea pigs has been chosen by a majority and is a “tragicomic novel set in in the present day’s Lima, which displays one of many nice conflicts of our time.” “We are societies which are more and more long-lived and hostile to the bigger society,” defined the president of the jury, Claudia Piñeiro.
The award, which reaches its twenty-sixth version, has had a jury chaired by the Argentine author Claudia Piñeiro and made up of the Spanish journalist and author Javier Rodríguez Marcos, the Argentine editor and translator Carolina Orloff, the bookseller of Letras Corsarias, in Salamanca , Rafael Arias García, the Spanish author Juan Tallón, and the editorial director of Alfaguara, Pilar Reyes (with voice however no vote).
In this name, 706 manuscripts have been acquired, of which 296 have been despatched from Spain, 112 from Argentina, 99 from Mexico, 81 from Colombia, 43 from the United States, 28 from Chile, 27 from Peru and 20 from Uruguay.
The award is endowed with $175,000, a sculpture by Martín Chirino and simultaneous publication all through the Spanish-speaking territory. The profitable novel will hit bookstores on March 23.