Premio Alfaguara de Novela

The Premio de Novela Alfaguara (Spanish: premio Alfaguara de Novela - Alfaguara Prize for novels ) is an international literary prize in Spanish ( castellano ). It was created in 1965 by the same publisher Alfaguara and awarded until 1972 with considerable success. Until then, he was endowed with 200,000 pesetas. Because of censorship and state pressure within the Francoist era ( Francoism ) but was abolished. Nevertheless, efforts were made to give him underground, but which have won by the non- public character little to no attention.

After 23 years of absence, he returned back in 1998 with strong Spanish and Latin American participation and is still assigned by transnational publishing house Alfaguara. After economic value in this second stage, he is the second most important award ( behind Premio Primavera de Novela of the publishing house Espasa ) in Spain, and he achieved an increased resonance. The manuscript of the winner will be automatically moved and published throughout the Spanish-speaking world, ie in 19 Latin American countries and of course Spain. The award is endowed in 2009 with 175,000 U.S. dollars ( 133,000 euros ). All winners of the second phase present their work in person in many countries, and her novels have achieved a wide distribution and are both large audience as well as critics have been successes.

To assess the participation of the candidate and submissions by country, are here briefly indicated the distributions for the award of 2005. 649 manuscripts were submitted in total. Of these, 457 came from Latin America. Spain remained the country with the most entries of 192 The second country is Argentina with 168, then Mexico with 81 and Colombia 43 In 2006, over 500 entries under a third of Spain.

Award winners

- Not officially awarded 1973-1997

- Not officially awarded 1973-1997

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