The Alfaguara Novel Prize ( es, Premio Alfaguara de Novela) is a Spanish-language

literary award 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. Ma ...

. The award is one of the most prestigious in the Spanish language. It includes a prize of (about ) making it one of the richest literary prizes in the world. It is sponsored by

Alfaguara Alfaguara is a Spanish-language publishing house that serves markets in Latin America, Spain and the United States. It was founded by the Spanish writer and Nobel prize winner Camilo José Cela. History and profile Alfaguara was established in ...

, a publisher owned by

Penguin Random House Penguin Random House LLC is an Anglo-American multinational corporation, multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, from the merger of Penguin Group and Random House. On April 2, 2020, Bertels ...

. The prize was created in 1965 by Alfaguara and continued until 1972. In 1980 Alfaguara was purchased by

Grupo Santillana Grupo Santillana, formerly Santillana Ediciones Generales, is a Spanish publisher founded in 1959 by Jesús de Polanco and Francisco Pérez González. From 2008 and due to the high debts of the group PRISA, Santillana made disinvestments to guid ...

. In 1998 the award was reconvened.

Winners

References

External links

Alfaguara Prize home page
{{in lang, es Spanish-language literary awards International literary awards Spanish literary awards Awards established in 1997 Fiction awards 1997 establishments in Spain Awards established in 1965 1965 establishments in Spain Awards disestablished in 1972 1972 disestablishments in Spain