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Premio Herralde
The Premio Herralde is a Spanish literary prize. It is awarded annually by the publishing house Anagrama Anagrama is a Spanish publisher founded in 1969 by Jorge Herralde. In 2010 it was sold to the Italian publisher Feltrinelli. Since 1969, Anagrama has published over 3,500 titles. currently, Anagrama publishes around 100 books annually, between t ... to an original novel in the Spanish language. Established in 1983, the prize takes its name from Jorge Herralde, founder of Anagrama. Accompanied by a cash prize, the award is announced every year in November. List of winners List of finalists References {{reflist External links Editorial AnagramaPremio Herralde Spanish literary awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Prize
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize). Types of awards There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish), the Camões Prize ( Portuguese), the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Soler (novelist)
Antonio Soler (born Málaga, 28 September 1956) is a Spanish novelist, screenwriter and journalist. Biography In 1983, Soler won the Jauja prize for short stories with ''Muerte canina (A Dog’s Death)''. His career as a writer was definitively launched in 1992 with the publication of ''Extranjeros en la noche (Strangers in the Night)'', a collection of short stories and a novella – ''La noche (The Night)'', which was later published as a separate book. After a further two novels he published ''Las bailarinas muertas (The Dead Dancing Girls)'', winning the Premio Herralde and establishing his reputation as a key exponent of modern Spanish narrative. His following novel, ''El nombre que ahora digo (The Name I Now Speak)'', is considered by some as one of the best depictions of life in the Republican sector during the Spanish conflict. In an article in El Pais in 2014, Professor Paul Preston is quoted as saying, "I don’t like reading novels about the Civil War, but an except ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Barrera Tyszka
Alberto José Barrera Tyszka (born 18 February 1960) is a Venezuelan writer. In 2006, he received the Herralde Prize for his novel ''La enfermedad'' ("The Sickness"). Life and career Barrera Tyszka was born in Caracas, and grew up in Venezuela. He graduated from the Central University of Venezuela, where he is now a professor in the Department of Literature. In the 1980s, he participated in the poetry movements ''Tráfico'' and ''Guaire''. His collaborations have appeared in diverse anthologies and publications from Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Cuba, and Venezuela. He is a regular columnist (since 1996) for the daily newspaper ''El Nacional'', and a regular contributor to the magazine '' Letras Libres''. He has written telenovela screenplays in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela. He has published four novels, a poetry collection, and three books of history, including ''Hugo Chávez sin uniforme: una historia personal'' (2005), the first biography of the late Venezuelan pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blue Hour (novel)
''The Blue Hour'' (La Hora Azul) is a 2005 novel by Peruvian novelist Alonso Cueto. It won the Premio Herralde de Novela for Spanish-language novels in 2006. The English translation, by Frank Wynne, was published in 2012, and won the 2013 Premio Valle-Inclán; it was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize in the same year. The story concerns a successful lawyer from Lima and his search for a woman whom he discovers had been kidnapped and held as a virtual sex slave by his now deceased father, a former military officer, during the war against the Shining Path guerrilla organization in the hinterland of Peru. Although ostensibly a political thriller, it is also a story of redemption and an attempt by the protagonist to disperse some of the ghosts haunting his country after years of internal strife. Film adaptation A film adaptation of the book was made, initially premiering in late August 2014 at the Montreal International Film Festival The Montreal Internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alonso Cueto
Alonso Cueto Caballero (born 1954 in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian author, university professor and newspaper columnist. His writing career has spanned nearly four decades, during which he has produced dozens of works of fiction, articles and essays. He has won numerous accolades for his work, and several of his novels have been adapted for film. Biography The son of Peruvian philosopher and educator Carlos Cueto Fernandini and children's literature promoter Lilly Caballero Elbers, Alonso Cueto spent his early childhood in France and the United States before returning to Peru at the age of seven. Cueto earned a bachelor's degree in literature from the Catholic University of Peru and a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Texas at Austin, where he completed his first collection of short stories, ''La batalla del pasado''. He returned to Peru in 1984 and published several books over the succeeding decades, including the award-winning ''Tigre Blanco''. At the same time, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Villoro
Juan Villoro (born 24 September 1956, in Mexico City) is a Mexican writer and journalist and the son of philosopher Luis Villoro. He has been well known among intellectual circles in Mexico, Latin America and Spain for years, but his success among a wider readership has grown since receiving the Herralde Prize for his novel ''El testigo''. Biography Juan Villoro received his bachelor's degree in Sociology from the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Iztapalapa campus. He was also part of a short story workshop conducted by Guatemalan writer Augusto Monterroso. As a rock music fan, he was the DJ for the radio program "El lado oscuro de la luna" (the Spanish translation of ''The Dark Side of the Moon'' by Pink Floyd) from 1977 until 1981. He was then made the cultural attaché to Berlin in the then German Democratic Republic. For three decades, Villoro has produced a steady output of articles for various Mexican periodicals, concentrating in such areas as sports, rock, cinema, li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Pauls
Alan Pauls (born 22 April 1959 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine writer, literary critic and screenwriter. An early essay he did on ''Betrayed by Rita Hayworth'' by Manuel Puig is said to show his interest in him as an "experimental writer." Although Pauls has expressed skepticism about the avant-garde as any form of program, preferring to see it as a "toolbox." Among his own experimental works is ''Wasabi'' from 1994. He also had a longstanding interest in film and his later work ''El pasado'' was adapted to film in 2007. He wrote a "History of" trilogy with the titles being ''History of crying'', ''History of hair'', and ''History of money''. He has additionally served as a visiting professor at Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the .... Selected works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Mal De Montano
''Montano's Malady'' ( es, El mal de Montano) is a 2002 novel by the Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas. It has also been published in English as ''Montano''. Plot The writer Jose Cardoso Pires is obsessed with literature. As he travels around Europe and suffers from writer's block, reality and fiction merge in his mind. The book consists of several distinct parts: a short story by the main character, the story of the short story's creation, a biographical dictionary of literary influences, and an angry account of how the narrator was betrayed by his wife and by a friend. Reception ''Publishers Weekly'' called the book an "inventive novel" clearly influenced by Jorge Luis Borges. The critic wrote that exhaustion caused by the literary form is a deliberate theme, but that this "doesn't save the book from its own devices". The book received the Premio Herralde The Premio Herralde is a Spanish literary prize. It is awarded annually by the publishing house Anagrama Anagrama is a Spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique Vila-Matas
Enrique Vila-Matas (born 31 March 1948 in Barcelona) is a Spanish author. He has authored several award-winning books that mix genres and has been branded as one of the most original and prominent writers in the Spanish language. He is a founding Knight of the Order of Finnegans, a group which meets in Dublin every year on June 16th to honour James Joyce and his novel Ulysses. Biography Enrique Vila-Matas was born in Barcelona in 1948 to Enrique, who worked in the real estate business, and Tayo Vila-Mata. When he was 12 he began writing and later studied law and journalism. In 1968 became editor of the film magazine ''Fotogramas''. In 1970 he directed two short films, ''Todos los jóvenes tristes'' (All the sad youngsters) and ''Fin de verano'' (The end of summer). In 1971 he did his military service in Melilla, where in the back room of a military supplies store, he wrote his first book,'' Mujer en el espejo contemplando el paisaje''. On his return to Barcelona, he worked as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alejandro Gándara
Alejandro Gándara (born 1957) is a Spanish writer. Born in Santander, Cantabria, Gandara studied political science and sociology at Complutense University in Madrid, where he also now teaches. He won the Premio Ignacio Aldecoa for short stories in 1979, and published his first novel ''La media distancia'' in 1984. He has published more than a dozen volumes of fiction and non-fiction, and his work has been translated into English, German and Italian among other languages. Gandara won the Premio Nadal for his novel ''Ciegas esperanzas'' and the Premio Herralde for ''Últimas noticias de nuestro mundo''. He is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines, including ''El Pais EL, El or el may refer to: Religion * El (deity), a Semitic word for "God" People * EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer * El DeBarge, music artist * El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American p ...'' and '' El Mundo''. References 1957 births Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Magrinyà
Luis Magrinyà (born 1960) is a Spanish writer and translator. Born in Palma de Mallorca, he has lived in Madrid since 1982. He is known as a member of the "Generación Inexistente" of writers. He is best known for two novels: ''Los dos Luises'' which won the Premio Herralde The Premio Herralde is a Spanish literary prize. It is awarded annually by the publishing house Anagrama Anagrama is a Spanish publisher founded in 1969 by Jorge Herralde. In 2010 it was sold to the Italian publisher Feltrinelli. Since 1969, Ana ... and ''Habitación doble'' which won the Premio Otras Voces, Otros Ámbitos. References Spanish male novelists 1960 births Living people Spanish translators People from Palma de Mallorca Date of birth missing (living people) {{Spain-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcos Giralt Torrente
Marcos Giralt Torrente (born 1968) is a Spanish writer. Born in Madrid, he studied philosophy at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. His first book, a collection of short stories called ''Entiéndame'', appeared in 1995. Since then, he has published three novels and three more short story collections. His literary output over two decades is relatively modest, but Giralt Torrente's work has met with notable critical success and numerous literary prizes. These include: * 1999 - Premio Herralde de Novela, for ''París''. * 1999 - Premio Modest Furest i Roca, for ''Nada sucede solo''. * 2011 - Premio Internacional de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero, for ''El final del amor''. * 2011 - Premio Nacional de Narrativa, por ''Tiempo de vida''. * 2014 - Premio Strega Europeo, for the Italian translation of ''Tiempo de vida''. Giralt Torrente has served as resident writer at the Academia Española in Rome, at Aberdeen University, and at the Santa Maddalena Foundation, among other plac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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