The prize, worth 20,000 euros, recognizes that the essay "addresses one of the key issues that contemporary society faces regarding its victims, their causes and their unusual spectators."

Argentine journalist and writer Martin Caparros has received the Essay International Prize, Caballero Bonald, for his work “The Hunger" (Anagram). The jury chose this work for being "an essay in the tradition of Argentina’s  chronicles, which addresses one of the key issues that contemporary society faces, such as hunger. "

"Hunger" has been chosen from the nearly one hundred fifty essays submitted to the competition, by a jury composed of Victoria Camps, JoseCarlos Mainer, José María Pozuelo Yvancos, Fernando R. Lafuente, Santos Sanz Villanueva and Fernando Dominguez Bellido. El prize, endowed with 20,000 euros, is organized by the Caballero Bonald Foundation, with the collaboration of the Municipality of Jerez, and sponsored by the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes and Banco Santander Foundation and is awarded annually to a book of essays that stands out from those published anywhere in the world, in any of the official languages of the Spanish State.

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