Overview
- Editorial Anagrama announced the award on November 3 at a Barcelona event, with a jury of Marta Sanz, Juan Pablo Villalobos, Gonzalo Pontón Gijón, Cecilia Fanti and editor Silvia Sesé.
- The prize is worth €25,000, and Maurette’s submission was selected from 892 entries after being entered under the pseudonym Carlos Bernárdez.
- The publisher says the novel will reach bookstores on November 26, 2025.
- The book blends a comic-historical reconstruction of Buenos Aires–era contraband in the 1600s with a plot about an aspiring writer trying to recover his late mentor Eduardo’s unfinished manuscript.
- Maurette described the novel as a homage to plagiarism and an act of “paramnesia,” while jurors praised its humor, picaresque lineage and celebration of storytelling.