Cristian Alarcón, editor of Cosecha Roja, wins the XXV Alfaguara Novel Prize

• National Alfaguara Award, recognized by the Government

The Chilean writer and journalist Cristian Alarcón has been chosen as the winner of the XXV Alfaguara Novel Prize thanks to

, a story in which the history of Chile and Argentina are entangled with the

of a character who takes refuge in nature to unravel your memory.

Alarcón will receive $175,000 (145,300 euros) for the award.

"I have been a journalist all my life. I have always struggled with journalism and literature. I have written about young thieves, about the Peruvian drug war in Buenos Aires. Now I have rediscovered another subject,

. It is an adventure for everyone and it is a form of knowledge. This time I dedicated myself to the creation of an artifact that has a double face. One part is an American family novel", explained Alarcón upon receiving the award.

Alarcón is known, above all, as the editor of the essay magazines

and

, published from Buenos Aires.

His previous books,

and

, were non-fiction pieces about urban and youth conflicts and violence, chronicles with a literary vocation.

His first novel seems, more than a change, an extension of his freedom rather than a change of genre: "I have seen myself creating an object that does not necessarily obey the logic of reality."

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