Subsuelo, by Marcelo Luján, awarded with the Premio Ciudad de Santa Cruz at the Tenerife Noir Festival
14/03/2016The 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 http://www.eldigitaldecanarias.net/index.php/cultura/9138-subsuelo-de-marcelo-lujan-premio-ciudad-de-santa-cruz-en-tenerife-noir-2016
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Marcelo Luján wins the Dashiell Hammet Prize 2016 for “Subsoil”. Ignacio del Valle wins the Buenos Aires Negra in the same festival
19/07/2016The 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 assured that one of his “childhood dreams has been fulfilled” and that it is a prize “for the risky decisions taken at the beginning of the writing of the novel.” With this novel, the winner, whether he likes to go towards the margins of the genre or directly disaffiliate from it, shows that he is an excellent anatomist of daily evil. Three adolescents, three siblings, are sitting on the edge of a pool in a summer house. A fourth arrives late and has to go get ice but doesn’t feel like it. He doesn’t know that his contempt will be the beginning of the tragedy. From this nice and apparently anodyne point of departure, Luján unfurls a deep analysis of desire, envy, hatred, filial love and predatory sex and destruction. A book with a simple style, a thriller based on the strength of the characters and which pays tribute in its profundity to the master Patricia Highsmith. The author of “Moravia” succeeds Carlos Zanón in the list of winners, as well as Alexis Ravelo and Guillermo Saccomanno, the last three to have won it, along with a prestigious group of authors that include Ignacio Taibo II, Andreu Martín, Juan Madrid, and Jorge Reverte. In the same festival, Ignacio del Valle won the Buenos Aires Negra Award for Soles Negros (Black Suns) from the Arturo Andrade Series.
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Luján, Marcelo
Marcelo Luján (Buenos Aires, 1973) se radicó a principios de 2001 en Madrid, donde en la actualidad trabaja como coordinador de actividades culturales y talleres de creación literaria. Ha publicado los libros de cuentos Flores para Irene (Premio Santa Cruz de Tenerife 2003), En algún cielo (Premio Ciudad de Alcalá de Narrativa 2006) y El desvío (Premio Kutxa Ciudad de San Sebastián 2007). Ha publicado también libros de prosa poética Arder en el invierno y Pequeños pies ingleses, y las novelas La mala espera (Premio Ciudad de Getafe de Novela Negra 2009 y segunda Mención del Premio Clarín 2005), Moravia y Subsuelo (Premio Dashiell Hammett 2016, entre otros). Parte de su obra fue seleccionada en campañas de fomento a la lectura y traducida al francés, italiano, checo y búlgaro. Con La claridad ha obtenido, por unanimidad, el VI Premio Ribera del Duero. Foto: © Daniel Mordzinski
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