Fernando Schwartz’s El desencuentro won the prize. It follows a woman’s life through marriage, family, and the frictions of memory and expectation.

A story about family, memory, and emotional misalignment.

Zoé Valdés’s Te di la vida entera was a finalist. Against the backdrop of post-revolutionary Cuba, it portrays female desire and deprivation with sharp force.

A story of a woman living through post-revolutionary Cuba.