The jury, presided by Royal Academy of the Spanish Language member Carme Riera, has noted that «La noche de la usina» (“The Night of the Mill”) is a «choral novel, lissome and emotional, with many of the ingredients of the best mystery and western fiction.»

La noche de la usina
The Night of the Heroic Losers
ISBN: 9781941999813
TP     $19.95
BISAC:  FICTION / General
Trim Size: 6” x 9”
Imprint: Alfaguara
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MADRID, ES., April 5, 2016 - The Argentinean writer Eduardo Sacheri has been awarded with the 2016 Alfaguara Novel Prize, and granted $175,000 (154,000 euros) and a sculpture by Martín Chirino for his work The Night of the Heroic Losers,presented under the same name and with the pseudonym Alfredo Álvarez. The jury, presided by writer and academic Carme Riera and composed of Michi Strausfeld, Carlos Zanón, Sara Mesa, Mercedes Corbillón, and Pilar Reyes (non-voting member), has declared this novel the winner by majority vote. In this call for submissions to the Alfaguara Novel Prize, 707 manuscripts were received, of which 303 were submitted from Spain, 108 from Mexico, 96 from Argentina, 82 from Colombia, 54 from the United States, 34 from Peru, 16 from Chile, and 14 from Uruguay.

Eduardo Sacheri was born in Buenos Aires in 1967. A professor with a degree in history, he is a university and secondary professor. He published the books of short stories Esperándolo a Tito y otros cuentos de fútbol (2000; Alfaguara, 2015), Te conozco, Mendizábal y otros cuentos (2001), Lo raro empezó después. Cuentos de fútbol y otros relatos (2004), Un viejo que se pone de pie y otros cuentos (2007), La vida que pensamos. Cuentos de fútbol (Alfaguara, 2013), the anthology Las llaves del reino (Alfaguara, 2015), and the novels Aráoz y la verdad (Alfaguara, 2008), El secreto de sus ojos (2005; Alfaguara, 2009), Papeles en el viento (Alfaguara, 2011), and Ser feliz era esto (Alfaguara, 2014). He collaborates with national and international newspapers and magazines. El secreto de sus ojos (The Secret in their Eyes) was brought to film by Juan José Campanella, and became one of the most successful movies in the history of Argentine cinema: awarded with several prizes, including an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year, its script was created by Sacheri and Campanella themselves. The two worked together again on Futbolín, a 3-D animated film, based on a story by Roberto Fontanarrosa and premiered in Spain at the end of 2013, which received the Goya Prize for best animated movie. Sacheri’s stories have been published in graphic media in Argentina, Colombia, and Spain, and included by the Argentine Ministry of Education in its campaigns to promote reading. His works have been translated into more than twenty languages..

ALFAGUARA NOVEL PRIZE

Since its first edition in 1998, the Alfaguara Prize has been chaired by Carlos Fuentes, Eduardo Mendoza, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Jorge Semprún, Luis Mateo Díez, José Saramago, José Manuel Caballero Bonald, Ángeles Mastretta, Mario Vargas Llosa, Sergio Ramírez, Luis Goytisolo, Manuel Vicent, Bernardo Atxaga, Rosa Montero, Manuel Rivas, and Laura Restrepo.

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