They've announced that Alfredo Bryce Echenique is this year's winner of the FIL Literary Prize -- "presented in recognition for lifetime achievement in any literary genre" (and worth US $150,000 -- yet another Spanish-language literary prize that belongs on the Wikipedia List of the world's richest literary prizes ...).
With previous winners that include local favorites Augusto Monterroso, Juan Goytisolo, and António Lobo Antunes it looks like it can be taken pretty seriously.
A World for Julius is probably the best-known-available-in-English book by Bryce Echenique (get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk) -- but, honestly, aren't you more curious about Tarzan's Tonsillitis (get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk) ?
See also the report in the Latin American Herald Tribune, Peru's Bryce Echenique Wins Mexican Literature Prize.
A World for Julius is probably the best-known-available-in-English book by Bryce Echenique (get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk) -- but, honestly, aren't you more curious about Tarzan's Tonsillitis (get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk) ?
See also the report in the Latin American Herald Tribune, Peru's Bryce Echenique Wins Mexican Literature Prize.