On Friday, the parliament of Arava in Spain’s Basque region announced the findings of the investigation. 54th Ignacio Aldecoa International Short Story Awardan Argentinian writer was awarded Fernando Garriga (Buenos Aires, 1964) in a book of his stories tentatively titled “The Loop of Time.” The author used the palindrome of the words “Omin Odeus” as a pen name. 352 works competed.
Mr. Garriga received €12,000 and his book, consisting of six novels, will be published by the Spanish label Fulgencio Pimentel and will be published in March 2026. In Alaba, Barcelona and Madrid. Specimens are also expected to arrive in Argentina.
The jury of the contest, consisting of Clara Obrigado, an Argentine writer living in Spain, Antonio Altariba, a Spanish writer from the Cultural Institute of Alaba, Sabina Urraca, Juan Aparicio Belmonte, editors César Sánchez Rodríguez and Enrique Uriarte Gonzalo Bilbao, decided that the winning work wasHe uses his extraordinary formal ability to express his extraordinary imagination, with absolute control over rhythm and the development of a rich and complex imagination.. Rarely do I read a work so salty (and so graceful) removed from reality. ”
“He deals with metaphysical issues without fear of humor or even of ridicule. We admire the lightness with which he makes this leap,” the judgment emphasizes. In conclusion, he argues that Garriga’s work “offers the literary possibility of truly traveling to another place.”
Juror Ignacio Aldecoa, a Spanish author known especially for his short stories, selected the finalists based on their stories. If this was acceptable, they continued to evaluate the collection as a whole. In Garriga’s case, the first story that passed the jury’s filter was a “time loop” set on the coast of Martinez and the island of Plaza Italia.
In addition to being a writer, Garriga is also a musician and landscape painter. he published a book school for the blind (2013), birthday on the island (2016), continuity of work (2016), Rankel invasion according to mom (2019) and almost Japanese novels (2023). for his story book continuity of workwon the 3rd place in the Luis de Tejeda contest from the city of Córdoba and the first city award in the 2016-2017 period from the city of Buenos Aires.
The Assembly of Alaba also announced that Nahia Inchausti in Basque and Gretel Delgado in Spanish were the winners of the 35th Ernestina de Champrusin Poetry Contest, and Rubén Sánchez Bacaicoa received the Ignacio Aldecoa Beca Scholarship for Basque Literary Creation.
Thus begins the “time loop”
The canoe was down the river long before the sound of the engine. The islanders were in the stern and did not move. The dogs were barking as they went from dock to dock. They stopped by the pantry and spoke with the owner. As for the floods, we didn’t know when the water would stop rising, but it had already begun to pass through the levees. He asked for a can of fuel, so he had to go upstream to find a large amount of wood. Therefore, it was necessary to rent a barge.
The other person was left ruminating. It was not polite to ask what cargo the current was carrying, but it was his barge.
The islanders had no intention of going around claiming they had discovered a stockpile of wood in the mountains. Someone had cut down a tree to make a board and left it to dry near a mental hospital. One day, while shouldering his rifle and looking for something to kill to eat, he found a stash. He was a cautious man. He focused on monitoring. He wandered around the mountain for a long time, looking for footprints where someone might have walked there. He placed Spinel in order to justify his existence. There was enough wood to make large works, and the river was growing so we could move through the trees. More or less, there should have been a meter of water.
Butler wanted to know if his barge was involved in illegal activity, and he didn’t want to repeat the crime. The other person may be offended. It was bad company to accuse someone of something they had no idea about. He himself thought that the tide was favorable that morning for people to go into some field to raid other people’s property. It wasn’t the first time.
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