Overview
- The Uruguayan author was honored for El monte de las furias with the US$10,000 award granted at the Guadalajara International Book Fair.
- A jury of Giselle Etcheverry Walker, Patricia Córdova Abundis and Julián Herbert unanimously praised the novel’s rootedness in Latin American tradition and its exceptional female perspective.
- The book follows a woman on a mountainside whose vigilance turns unsettling, exploring invisible labor, solitude, desire and the pull between rural and urban life.
- Trías said “literature is not the stock market” and defended opacity, slowness and precision in writing, framing the reclamation of language by women as a continuing struggle.
- She previously won in 2021 for Mugre rosa, and coverage notes conflicting records on whether she is the first two-time recipient or shares that distinction with Cristina Rivera Garza; the jury also gave an honorary mention to Adriana Riva’s Ruth.