They've announced the 2014 winner of the biennial Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile -- the Chilean national literary award -- and it goes to Antonio Skármeta; see, for example, Writer Antonio Skarmeta Wins Chile's National Literature Prize at teleSUR.
They've made some solid selections -- scroll down here for all the winners -- and did well in, for example, honoring Pablo Neruda back in 1945 already. But Skármeta picks the award up four years after Isabel Allende won; it's a good rule of thumb that you really don't want to win an award after they gave it to Isabel Allende.
They've made some solid selections -- scroll down here for all the winners -- and did well in, for example, honoring Pablo Neruda back in 1945 already. But Skármeta picks the award up four years after Isabel Allende won; it's a good rule of thumb that you really don't want to win an award after they gave it to Isabel Allende.