Samanta Schweblin (Buenos Aires, 1978) was awarded with el Aena de Narrativa Hispanoamericano Award, subsidized with one million euros, por Good bad (Seix Barral), a book of stories, “of a disturbing beauty that puts the tradition of the story at its highest point,” jurado pointed out. The competition for the controversial prize took place tonight at a gala in Barcelona.
The jury, chaired by Rosa Montero and composed of Pilar Adón, Luis Alberto de Cuenca, Jorge Fernandez Diaz, Leila Warrior, Jose Carlos Llop and Elmer Mendoza, was largely cast in Schweblin’s book, which “explodes to form new worlds that are unsettling, fascinating and complex” and “masterfully crosses the line between the possible and the impossible with hypnotic prose,” Montero said.
The winner of the award is Schweblin I celebrated that Aena was eagerly picking apart the story bookwhich is not very common in great literary novels. “It excites me to think that I’m getting an award that’s also a recognition of this type of guy.”
“I wonder if the Aena Prize is aware of the declaration of principles that imply the awarding of prizes with a book like this. I think of other major international prizes that reward especially novels and novels, extraordinary novels. And only often when Alice Munro or Jhumpa Lahiri, authors with a supernatural talent able to break the canons and make a book of stories please the first step in this genre, and even more include a book of stories that this genre gives. as a reward for the exception.”
The four prize finalists, Héctor Abad Faciolince s Here and there (Alfaguara); Nona Fernández Lt Marciano (Random House); Marcos Giralt Torrente s Illusionists (Anagrama) and Enrique Vila-Matas p The dark canon of the camera (Seix Barral), will be awarded 30,000 euros each.
En el good bad reported the criticism of El Cultural Ascensión Rivas, Schweblin from “unequivocal signals of his extraordinary capacity for the cause”. “ATan instructive book on how to handle the material and the details that can change things, uncomfortable work that brings us to who we really area combination of stories that foreshadow and disturb. He deals with themes such as loneliness, care, violence, pain or death, placing his characters – human, vulnerable – on the edge of the deep”.
The Argentinian author should be introduced to the book of stories The core of the disorder and you can look forward to international projects with Pajaros in the moutha volume that has cemented its unsettling, precise style and is full of everyday extravagance. He cultivated a whole story and a short story with similar titles Fishing distance (released theatrically in a Netflix adaptation), Kentucky y You are empty houses where I explore my intimate, strained family relationships and useful forms of violence and bleakness.
Her work has won numerous international awards, including the National Book Award for Best Work Translated into English, and has been translated into many languages, making her a leading author on the global circuit of contemporary literature.
Rodeado controversy
Price of Aena, que he aspires to be the equivalent of the French Goncourt or the British Bookerwas criticized by critics for allocating a million euros, from a large public company, to a single novel, a figure that exceeds even the current galardón with the highest economic capital, the Planet.
In addition to these questions, it is certainly the marketing and image operation of Aena that is more than an authentic patronage project, as well as the fear that this term will disrupt the ecosystem of literary awards in Spanish. Aena members for the project include Fundación Gabo and Cátedra Vargas Llosa.
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