They've announced that the Premio Internacional Carlos Fuentes a la Creación Literaria for 2014 will go to Sergio Ramírez (the first one, in 2012, went to Mario Vargas Llosa).
Worth US$250,000 (though the actual pay-out is in Mexican pesos), this is trying to establish itself as a major Spanish-language author award; with Ramírez they've certainly selected an author that helps establish their bona-fides: woefully under-appreciated/noticed in English (perhaps because of his inconvenient politics -- he was vice-president of Nicaragua in the Sandinista government, from 1985 to 1990 ...), he is a major writer.
Three of his works are under review at the complete review: the novels A Thousand Deaths Plus One and Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea, as well as A Memoir of the Sandinista Revolution Adiós Muchachos.
Worth US$250,000 (though the actual pay-out is in Mexican pesos), this is trying to establish itself as a major Spanish-language author award; with Ramírez they've certainly selected an author that helps establish their bona-fides: woefully under-appreciated/noticed in English (perhaps because of his inconvenient politics -- he was vice-president of Nicaragua in the Sandinista government, from 1985 to 1990 ...), he is a major writer.
Three of his works are under review at the complete review: the novels A Thousand Deaths Plus One and Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea, as well as A Memoir of the Sandinista Revolution Adiós Muchachos.