The Chilean writer Cynthia Rimsky, who lives in Argentina, and Xita Rubert, from Barcelona, are the joint winners of the 42nd edition of the Herralde Novel Prize, organized by the publishing house Anagrama.
A total of 1,149 works were submitted for the 125,000-euro prize, from which a shortlist of seven finalists was selected to finally award the prize to the “eccentric” novels of these two writers.
The jury, composed of Aldo García (Antonio Machado bookstore, Madrid), the academic Gonzalo Pontón Gijón Gijón, the Madrid writer Marta Sanz, the Tapatío author Juan Pablo Villalobos, and the Anagrama editor Silvia Sesé, decided to award ex aequo the prize to “Clara y confusa,” by Cynthia Rimsky (submitted under the pseudonym Mar del Sur) and “Los hechos de Key Biscayne,” by Xita Rubert (submitted under the pseudonym Sofía Sorensen).
The two novels that won the Herralde Prize will be in bookstores on Wednesday, November 27th.
