Argentine writer Guillermo Saccomanno has been awarded the 2025 Alfaguara Novel Prize, with a prize of 175,000 dollars (approximately 170,000 euros),
a sculpture by Martín Chirino and simultaneous publication throughout the Spanish-speaking world, for the work Arderá el viento, presented under the title Vendrá el fuego and under the pseudonym Jim. The jury unanimously declared the novel the winner. The novel will go on sale in bookstores on March 20th.
The jury, chaired by Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez, and composed of writers Leila Guerriero and Manuel Jabois; Film director and screenwriter Paula Ortiz, writer and owner of the La Mistral bookstore (Madrid), Andrea Stefanoni, and the editorial director of Alfaguara, Pilar Reyes (with voice but no vote), have highlighted in Arderá el viento: «It is the story of a degradation, of an agonizing peeling that little by little reveals the miseries of the social body.
