Claudia Piñeiro and María Inés Krimer are competing for the Dashiell Hammet prize for crime fiction.

The journalist Facundo Pastor and Flor Canosa are candidates in the nonfiction and fantasy categories.

Within the framework of the Crime Week in Gijón, which began on July 7th and runs until Sunday, July 15th in the old naval shipyard in the northern Spanish coastal city, the authors Claudia Piñeiro and María Inés Krimer are finalists for the Dashiell Hammet.  The writer Facundo Pastor is a contender for the Rodolfo Walsh award for the best non-fiction work of the crime genre and Flor Canosa for the Celsius, which means four Argentine writers could be distinguished this weekend.

Under the motto "Leer es memoria" (Reading is memory), the Crime Week in Gijón has the participation of more than a hundred and fifty writers from different literary genres. In this edition, Piñeiro, awarded in 2021 with the Dashiell Hammett Prize for crime fiction, is once again a finalist for this award with “El tiempo de las moscas,” a story that brings back Inés, the protagonist of “Tuya,” and that captures debates about motherhood, death and femicides.

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