Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez was named yesterday the winner of the 2017 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honor. Ramírez has written more than 20 novels, including “Margarita, está linda la mar” (Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea), which won Spain’s prestigious Alfaguara award in 1998. His work has been widely translated.  He has also received... - 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

Tuesday November 11 th , Sergio Ramírez was awarded the Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Creative Writing given by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM ) and the National Council for Culture and Arts (CONACULTA). The members of the jury were Juan Goytisolo, Mario Vargas Llosa (Nobel Prize and also awarded the first edition of this Prize), Soledad Puértolas, Margo Glantz and Gonzalo Celorio, who chose Sergio... - 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