Jorge Franco is the winner of Spain’s Alfaguara Novel Prize for “El mundo de afuera,” which is loosely based on a kidnapping that rocked Medellin in 1971. The jury hailed the novel’s “sense of humor, the effectiveness of its dialogues, its construction of complex characters and narrative agility that ensures the tension is maintained until the last page.”
Franco, born in 1962 is the author of novels such as “Rosario Tijeras,” winner of the 2000 Hammett International Novel Prize, translated into more than 15 languages, and adapted for the cinema and television; and “Paraiso Travel,” which was adapted into a successful film.
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