The Chilean writer unanimously won the award for the manuscript “Contigo a la distancia” (With you from the distance) a work of literary suspense.

Chilean writer Carla Guelfenbein Wednesday unanimously won the Alfaguara Novel Prize for the manuscript “Contigo en la distancia” work of literary suspense in which the author reflects on the lie and the truth, talent and mediocrity, success and failure.

The winning novel was presented under the title “To get to that point,” and the pseudonym of Sofia Veloso. The story spans three generations, “unknowingly share a poetic secret that is both an existential secret,” stated in the jury.

The $ 175,000 prize is awarded by the jury chaired by Javier Cercas and integrated by Héctor Abad Faciolince, Ernesto Franco, Bern González Harbour, Concha Quiros and Pilar Reyes (with voice but no vote).

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