2023 – Gustavo Rodríguez, One hundred guinea pigs.
2022 – Cristian Alarcón, The third paradise.
2021 – Pilar Quintana, The abysses.
2020 – Guillermo Arriaga, Save the fire.
2019 – Patricio Pron, Tomorrow we will have other names.
2018 – Jorge Volpi, A criminal novel.
2017 – Ray Loriga, Surrender.
2016 – Eduardo Sacheri, Usina's night.
2015 – Claudia Guelfenbein, With you distance.
2014 – Jorge Franco, The world of outside.
2013 – José Ovejero, The invention of love.
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Alfaguara 2023 winner
On January 19, the winner of the last edition of the Prize was announced, and it is the Peruvian Gustavo Rodríguez Who hangs the title with his work One hundred guinea pigs.
Gustavo Rodríguezborn in Lima, on May 2, 1968, he is a publicist by profession, but in writing he has found a shelter. He has written more than ten books, among which are Achilles fury, your mother's laughter and The week has seven women.
One hundred guinea pigs an old age with uncertainty in current Peru, where Violence towards the adult population It becomes almost systematic in an environment located in increasingly long and hostile societies. The protagonists of the novel seek to cope with their adulthood with the maximum dignity based on caring and care.
«I already spent half of life and one begins to question what comes and you see the deterioration in your mentors and the elderly and that influences more than one thinks. It is also due to the death of older people that I have close, mainly my father -in -law. And the mortal trail that left the covid in my country”, Says the writer in the tenor of his awards.
Rodríguez seeks to approach the theme of old age and death in his tragicomedysince he thinks, we live in a society in which there is little talk about the subject and comments that evading to talk about death is to harm us collectively, and only with humor you can enter these issues. The protagonist of the novel, Eufrasia Vela lives in Lima, and has been taking care of elderly people of a accommodated neighborhood. It is the deterioration of them that accompanies the novel, as well as that silent violence of classes.
Still unpublished, the tragicomedy novel, It will be published on March 23, 2023an unmissable work for heart readers.