The journalist and writer Martín Caparrós won the International Prize for Essay Caballero Bonald for his work “The hunger”, a book that according to support the verdict of the jury “addresses one of the key issues facing the contemporary society that relates to their victims, their cause and their unusual audience.”
“The hunger” (an Anagram) was chosen from among almost 150 submitted essays to the contest, by a jury composed by Victoria Camps, José Carlos Mainer, José María Pozuelo Yvancos, Fernando R. Lafuente, Santos Sanz Villanueva and Fernando Dominguez Bellido, reported the news agency EFE.
The award, endowed with 20,000 euros, is convened by the Fundación Caballero Bonald, with the collaboration of the city Council of Jerez, and with the patronage of the Foundation Virtual Library Miguel of Cervantes, and Banco Santander, and is given annually to a book of essays that stands out among those published the previous year in any place of the world, in any of the official languages of the Spanish State.
Caparros (Buenos Aires, 1957), is the son of the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst communist Antonio Caparros. He began his journalistic career on the daily News in 1973, in the section of the police force. From that year he collaborated with the magazine’s Goals until 1976.
he Left the country and went into exile in Europe, first in Paris, where he graduated in history at The Sorbonne; later moved to Madrid, where he lived until 1983.
Is the author of such novels as “Ansay, or the woes of the glory”, “No candles to your dead”, “The third body”, “The night before”, “A day in the life of God” or “Ate” (2013).
Among his works of nonfiction are “The modern war, chronicles of travel”, “What a country. Urgent report on the Argentina that is coming”, “Baby”, “Love and anarchy. Life urgent of Solitude Roses”, among others.
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