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Fernanda Trías Wins Sor Juana Prize Again for ‘El monte de las furias’

The FIL Guadalajara jury praised a singular female viewpoint with poetic intensity.

Overview

  • The 2025 Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz carries a $10,000 award recognizing Spanish-language books by women.
  • Jurors Giselle Etcheverry Walker, Patricia Córdova Abundis and Julián Herbert selected the novel by unanimous decision.
  • Herbert cited the book’s humor, tactile sensibility and a complex female erotics framed against masculine ugliness.
  • An honorable mention went to Ruth by Argentine author Adriana Riva for its approach to representations of female aging.
  • Trías used her acceptance remarks to champion women’s reclamation of language and to question commercial pressures in publishing.