Alfaguara Prize

The Alfaguara Novel Prize (Spanish: Premio Alfaguara de Novela) is a Spanish-language literary award. The award is one of the most prestigious in the Spanish language.^[1] It includes a prize of US$175,000^[2] (about €162000) making it one of the richest literary prizes in the world. It is sponsored by Alfaguara, a publisher owned by Penguin Random House.

The prize was created in 1965 by Alfaguara and continued until 1972. In 1980 Alfaguara was purchased by Grupo Santillana. In 1998 the award was reconvened.

Winners

Year	Title	Author	Nationality
1965	Las corrupciones	Jesús Torbado	Spain
1966	Pascua y naranjas	Manuel Vicent	Spain
1967	Fauna	Héctor Vázquez-Azpiri	Spain
1968	Corte de corteza	Daniel Sueiro	Spain
1969	No awardees
1970	Todas esas muertes	Carlos Droguett	Chile
1971	Leña verde	Luis Berenguer	Spain
1972	Florido mayo	Alfonso Grosso	Spain
1973–97	Not organised
1998	Caracol Beach	Eliseo Alberto	Cuba
	Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea	Sergio Ramírez	Nicaragua
1999	Son de mar	Manuel Vicent	Spain
2000	Últimas noticias del paraíso	Clara Sánchez	Spain
2001	La piel del cielo	Elena Poniatowska	Mexico
2002	El vuelo de la reina	Tomás Eloy Martínez	Argentina
2003	Diablo guardián	Xavier Velasco	Mexico
2004	Delirium	Laura Restrepo	Colombia
2005	El turno del escriba	Graciela Montes Ema Wolf	Argentina
2006	Red April	Santiago Roncagliolo	Peru
2007	See How Much I Love You	Luis Leante	Spain
2008	Chiquita	Antonio Orlando Rodríguez	Cuba
2009	Traveller of the Century	Andrés Neuman	Spain-Argentina
2010	El arte de la resurrección[3]	Hernán Rivera Letelier	Chile
2011	The Sound of Things Falling[4]	Juan Gabriel Vásquez	Colombia
2012	Una misma noche[5]	Leopoldo Brizuela	Argentina
2013	La invención del amor (Inventing love) [6]	José Ovejero	Spain
2014	El mundo de afuera[7]	Jorge Franco	Colombia
2015	Contigo en la distancia[8]	Carla Guelfenbein	Chile
2016	La noche de la usina[9]	Eduardo Sacheri	Argentina
2017	Rendición[10]	Ray Loriga	Spain
2018	Una novela criminal[11]	Jorge Volpi	Mexico
2019	Mañana tendremos otros nombres[12]	Patricio Pron	Argentina
2020	Salvar el fuego[13]	Guillermo Arriaga	Mexico
2021	Los abismos[14][15]	Pilar Quintana	Colombia
2022	El tercer paraíso[16]	Cristian Alarcón	Chile
2023	Cien cuyes[17]	Gustavo Rodríguez	Peru
2024	Los alemanes	Sergio del Molino	Spain

References

1. "Colombian Writer Wins Spanish Literary Prize", 21 March 2011
2. "Bases XIX Premio Alfaguara de novela 2016" (PDF) (in Spanish). Penguin Random House. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
3. Hernán Rivera Letelier obtiene el Premio Alfaguara 2010 con su obra 'El arte de la resurrección'
4. Rodríguez Marcos, Javier (21 March 2011). "Juan Gabriel Vásquez gana el Premio Alfaguara 2011". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
5. elpais.com
6. "Spain's Jose Ovejero wins Alfaguara Novel Prize". Global Post. EFE. 20 March 2013. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
7. W. M. S. (20 March 2014). "Jorge Franco gana el premio Alfaguara con 'El mundo de afuera'". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
8. "La chilena Carla Guelfenbein gana el Premio Alfaguara 2015". El Universal (in Spanish). Mexico City. EFE. 25 March 2015. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
9. "Eduardo Sacheri ganó el Alfaguara de Novela". Página/12 (in Spanish). 5 April 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
10. "Argentine writer Sacheri wins Alfaguara Prize". Buenos Aires Herald. 6 April 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
11. "Jorge Volpi gana el Premio Alfaguara con 'Una novela criminal'". El país. 31 January 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
12. de Carlos, Carmen (23 January 2019). "El rosarino Patricio Pron se quedó con el Premio Alfaguara". Clarín. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
13. "Guillermo Arriaga gana el Premio Alfaguara 2020". El Financiero. 24 January 2020. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
14. "Ganadores" [Winner]. Premio Alfaguara (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 August 2022.
15. "Pilar Quintana, ganadora del XXIV Premio Alfaguara de Novela con 'Los abismos'" [Pilar Quintana, winner of the XXIV Alfaguara Novel Prize with 'Los abysses']. europapress.es (in Spanish). 21 January 2021. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
16. "El escritor chileno Cristian Alarcón, Premio Alfagura de Novela por 'El tercer paraíso'". Europa Press. 20 January 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
17. "'Cien cuyes' de Gustavo Rodríguez gana el Premio Alfaguara de novela 2023". elDiario.es (in Spanish). 19 January 2023. Retrieved 20 January 2023.

External links

• Alfaguara Prize home page (in Spanish)