Juan Manuel de Prada’s La tempestad won the prize. Set in Venice, it intertwines art scholarship, crime, and the shadow of memory.

A Venice-set novel where art and crime collide.

Carmen Rigalt’s Mi corazón que baila con espigas was a finalist. Through family and romantic entanglements, it traces a woman’s inner turbulence.

Inner turbulence born from family and romantic entanglements.