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Two More Awards for Los hijos de la Diosa Huracán
The novel Los hijos de la Diosa Huracán has won first place for Best Popular Fiction and Best Adventure Novel or Drama in Spanish, the two categories for which it had been nominated at the International Latino Book Awards.
The contest, sponsored by the non-profit organization Empowering Latino Futures, is chaired by actor and producer Edward James Olmos. This year, a total of 214 anonymous judges read and discussed hundreds of books in English, Spanish and Portuguese that were competing in 96 different categories.
In the Best Popular Fiction category, the nominees were four and the jury decided the following:
FIRST PLACE: Los hijos de la Diosa Huracán, Daína Chaviano; Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial; Cuba/USA; Miami.
Second Place: La sirena de diamantes, Roberto Gil de Mares; Grupo Editorial Sial Pigmalión; Colombia; Bogota.Honorable Mention: Afterlife, Julia Alvarez; Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill; USA/Dominican Republic.
Honorable Mention: Coney Island Siren, Theresa Varela; Pollen Press Publishing LLC; USA/Puerto Rico; New York City.
In the category Best Novel Adventure of Drama in Spanish, five novels were finalists with this result:
FIRST PLACE: Los hijos de la Diosa Huracán, Daína Chaviano; Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial; Cuba/USA; Miami.
Second Place: La rebelión de la Chora, Eduardo Labarca; Editorial Catalonia; Chile; San Antonio, Chile.
Honorable Mention: El oculista de Tombuctú, Bernard Christenson; Libros del Atelier; Puerto Rico; San Juan, PR.
Honorable Mention: Proyecto Evolución, ErnestoMarquez; Page Publishing, Inc.; Los Angeles, CA.
Honorable Mention: Un Hombre Sin Nombre, Hugo Riquelme Becerra; Aurea Ediciones; Chile; Santiago.
This year the ceremony was broadcast from California virtually, due to the pandemic.
The novel had previously received the gold medal of the Florida Book Awards, sponsored by Florida State University Libraries, with the collaboration of the State Library and Archives of Florida, Florida Association for Media in Education, Florida Center for the Book, Florida Historical Society , Florida Humanities Council, Florida Library Association, and Florida Literary Arts Coalition, among other institutions.
The novel had previously received the gold medal of the Florida Book Awards, sponsored by Florida State University Libraries, with the collaboration of the State Library and Archives of Florida, Florida Association for Media in Education, Florida Center for the Book, Florida Historical Society , Florida Humanities Council, Florida Library Association, and Florida Literary Arts Coalition, among other institutions.