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We are so pleased and proud to announce that Selva Almada has won the Edinburgh International Book Festival's 2019 First Book Award with her debut novel "The Wind that Lays Waste". The novel has been translated into English by Chris Andrews and published by Charco...

Selva Almada receives in the Argentine Senate the Honourable Mention "Juana Azurduy de Padilla" in recognition of her literary work, committed to the visibility and denunciation of the violence to which boys, girls, adolescents and women are subjected. Congratulations...

Mónica Ojeda has been honoured with the prestigious “Next Generation Award” from the Prince Claus Foundation.   The Prince Claus Awards honour visionary individuals and organisations for their excellent, ground-breaking work in fields of culture and development....

Inés Garland gets the Ala Delta Award for Literature for children given by the Edelvives Group for her novel Lilo (provisional title). For the jury, it is a social work, as it puts the focus in a contemporary evil, the inadequate use and abuse of new technologies at...

2019 will be the year of the English editions of many of our authors. Mario Levrero, El discurso vacío, published by Coffe House ; Selva Almada, El viento que arrasa, by Graywolf in USA and Chraco Press in UK;  Gabriela Cabezón, Las aventuras de China Iron, by Charco...

Horacio Convertini wins the Celsius Award for the best science fiction novel with Los que duermen en el polvoMiguel Ángel Molfino wins with Pampa del infierno the Espartaco Award for the best history novel                ...

"La perra"by Pilar Quintana and " La Cuadra" by Gilmer Mesa are finalists of the National Novel Award 2018, Colombia

Mario Levrero in Chinese: La novela luminosa will be translated in Chinese and published by the Chinese company Hunan Literature & Art Publishing House  

For  the category of writer:   María Teresa Andruetto (who  already got the Andersen Award) and for the category of illustration:  Istvan Schritter.   http://www.alma.se/en/Nominations/Candidates/2018/

Pilar Quintana  winner of the  IV Premio Biblioteca de  Narrativa Colombiana with her novel "La Perra"