“Today the Argentine writer Marcelo Luján won the Dashiell Hammett Prize for crime fiction with the novel Subsuelo (Basement), a dark crime story set in a rural house with few characters.

The award, which is given during Gijón Crime Week by the International Association of Crime Writers for the best crime novel written in Spanish in the last year, was announced by the Jury’s spokesperson Rosa Rivas, who criticized the “lack of women among the finalists.”

Meanwhile, the Spanish journalist and writer Ramón Lobo won the Rodolfo Walsh Prize for best non-fiction crime writing with Todos náufragos (All the Shipwrecks)”

Translation by The Spanish Bookstage 

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