Overview
- The Barcelona announcement named the Buenos Aires–born writer as the winner of the €25,000 award from Editorial Anagrama.
- Maurette entered under the pseudonym “Carlos Bernárdez,” and the book was selected from 892 manuscripts.
- Anagrama said El Contrabando Ejemplar will reach bookstores on 26 November 2025.
- The novel’s plot follows an aspiring writer intent on appropriating a late friend’s unfinished manuscript, which Maurette framed as a homage to plagiarism and to literature as “paramnesia.”
- The narrative layers a 17th‑century Buenos Aires culture of systemic contraband with present-day questions, including peronism and antiperonism, earning jury praise for its humor and storytelling verve.