Monday, November 7, 2016

Juan Pablo Villalobos wins Award Herralde Novel – Milenio.com

The mexican Juan Pablo Villalobos was the winner of 34 Award Herralde Novel with his works I’m Not going to ask anybody that I created, which she presented under the pseudonym Somiatruites, which becomes the sixth mexican to receive this award.

The editorial Anagrama unveiled this Monday, the decision of the jury, composed by Salvador Clotas, Paloma Díaz-Mas, Marcos Giralt Torrente, Vicente Molina Foix and the publisher Jorge Herralde.

Juan Pablo Villalobos writes as acting Buster Keaton: you start the laugh remained unmoved, without moving a muscle.

The novel, which will be published on the 30th of November, is imposed between the five novels finalists of the 512 submitted to the award, endowed with 18 billion euros.

The jury pointed out that Juan Pablo Villalobos writes as acting Buster Keaton: you start the laugh remained unmoved, without moving a muscle.

he Noted that in his previous novels had already been building a world of their own, with endearing characters and eccentrics that were happening strange things and hilarious “and this established him as a writer must”.

“In her, and through the odyssey of a normal man who becomes involved in adventures of the most fanciful, speaks to us of the reality and the fiction, or the importance of literature in our lives, and of the crucial role of humour”, he said.

The mexican has investigated topics as diverse as the ergonomics of the toilet, the side effects of drugs against erectile dysfunction or eccentricity in the Latin american literature of the first half of the TWENTIETH century.

Anagram has published his novels Party in the rabbit hole, If we lived in a normal place and I sell a dog.

The argentine Federico Jeanmaire was a finalist in this edition of the Premio Herralde Novel with his work Love dwarves, a huge fable about the difficulties for human beings to coexist with other human beings and, above all, to be happy with them.

Prior to Villalobos, was to have obtained the Award Herralde Novel, Sergio Pitol (1984), Juan Villoro (2004), Daniel Sada (2008), Alvaro Enrique (2013) and Guadalupe Nettel (2014).

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