Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

The jury of the VI Premio Ribera del Duero , which included writers Óscar Esquivias, Clara Obligado and chaired by Fernando Aramburu, unanimously awarded Clarity , from among more than a thousand manuscripts submitted, for its narrative meticulousness as well as Marcelo Luján ’s disquieting gaze, projected in a very persuasive book, which reveals a questioning of the language and a poetics of alienation. The six stories that... - Read more

  Marcelo Luján (Buenos Aires, 1973) settled in Madrid, Spain, at the begin-ning of 2001, where he currently works as a coordinator of cultural activities and workshops for literary creation. He has published short stories books Flowers for Irene (Premio Santa Cruz de Tenerife 2003), In Some Heaven (Premio Ciudad de Alcalá de Narrativa 2006) and The Detour (Premio Kutxa Ciudad de San Sebastián 2007). He has also... - Read more

Madrid:Frontera, by David Llorente, winner of the Dashiel Hammett prize 2017 David Llorente (Madrid, 1972) has won the Dashiell Hammett Prize, awarded during the Semana Negra de Gijón, for his novel Madrid:Frontera (Alrevés). Madrid:Frontera is a disturbing dystopia, a condemning cry for the misery that consumes our present-day society, a disquieting novel that is radical in its approach. The judges note that the winning novel... - Read more

The Argentine Marcelo Luján (Buenos Aires, 1973) has been awarded the Dashiell Hammett , the principal recognition awarded at the Semana Negra de Gijón, for his book Subsuelo (Subsoil) , a disturbing and sober thriller that has been considered by the judges as the best book of the noir genre published in Spain in 2015 . Luján won the Getafe award in 2009 for “La mala espera”. Visibly emotional, the winner has... - Read more

The novel 'Subsuelo', by Marcelo Luján, wins the Premio Ciudad de Santa Cruz of the Festival Atlántico Tenerife Noir for the best noir genre novel of the 2015 in Spain. Ver más en:  http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/2696533/0/subsuelo-marcelo-luj-premio-ciudad-santa-cruz-tenerife-noir/#xtor=AD-15&xts=467263... - Read more