Chilean writer Carlos Franz won today the 2nd Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Prize for Best Novel with his book Si te vieras con mis ojos (If You Could See Yourself Through My Eyes) (Alfaguara), the story of a love triangle between scientist Charles Darwin, painter Johann Moritz and epistolary writer Carmen Arriagada.

Franz received the award, which consisted of $100,000 plus a bronze statuette donated by Peruvian visual artist Fernando De Szyszlo, at the closing ceremony of the Biennial, which was held at the National Theater of Lima. Franz’s novel was selected among five finalists; the other four were Adiós a los padres (Goodbye to the Parents), by Mexican writer Héctor Aguilar Camín; La distancia que nos separa (The Distance That Separates Us), by Peruvian Renato Cisneros; La forma de las ruinas (The Shape of Ruins), by Colombian Juan Gabriel Vásquez; and La mucama de Omicunlé (Omicunlé’s Housemaid), by Dominican Rita Indiana.

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