The Juan Carlos Onetti Literary Contest () is a

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. Originally awarded in 1960, the

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reestablished and renamed the contest after

Juan Carlos Onetti Juan Carlos Onetti Borges (July 1, 1909 – May 30, 1994) was a Uruguayan novelist and author of short stories. Early life Onetti was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He was the son of Carlos Onetti, a customs official, and Honoria Borges, who be ...

, one of the most important Uruguayan fiction writers, in 2011.

Winners

Narrative

* 2011: Alondra Badano, for ''La suerte del olvido'' * 2012: Ramón Albín de María, for ''En olor de santidad'' * 2013: Rafael Mandressi, for ''Siempre París'' * 2014: Héctor Aníbal Uboldi, for ''Padre Nuestro'' * 2015: Pedro Giudice, for ''El fractal de Julia'' * 2016: Valentín Trujillo, for ''¡Cómanse la ropa!'' * 2017: Juan Pablo Rodríguez Laureano, for ''Humo'' * 2018: Gonzalo Palermo Marsiglia, for ''Después de la guerra contra los conejos'' * 2019: ''not awarded'' * 2020: Federico Mateus Ferreira, for ''La inmortal del siglo XX'' * 2021: Gabriela Escobar, for ''Si las cosas fuesen como son'' * 2022: Sebastián Míguez Conde, for ''En el cuerpo de quién'' * 2023: Manuel Soriano, for ''Las chicas doradas''

Poetry

* 2011: Juan Adolfo Bertoni, for ''Está muy luz el cuello de la muerte'' * 2012: Roberto López Belloso, for ''Poemas encontrados en la primera década'' * 2013: René Fuentes, for ''Caballo que ladra'' * 2014: Gabriela Onetto, for ''Espiar/expiar'' * 2015: ''not awarded'' * 2016: René Fuentes, for ''Periplo cerrado'' * 2017: Rosana Malaneschii Delgado, for ''Con Anna Ajmátova'' * 2018: ''not awarded'' * 2019: Pablo Thiago Rocca, for ''Los cuadernos del dios Verde'' * 2020: Gerardo José Ciancio Díaz, for ''Linaje'' * 2021: Magdalena Portillo, for ''Catedrales Nocturnas'' * 2022: Gerardo José Ciancio Díaz, for ''Casa de salud'' * 2023: Juan Andrés Felártigas, for ''Ya no seremos tapa de disco''

Drama

* 2011: Andrés Echevarría, for ''Cuando la luna vuelve a su casa'' * 2012: Santiago Sanguinetti, for ''Sobre la teoría del eterno retorno aplicada a la revolución en el Caribe'' * 2013: Sandra Massera, for ''Hotel blanco'' * 2014: Raquel Diana, for ''El tipo que vino a la función'' * 2015: Analía Torres Herrera, for ''Mancuso'' * 2016: ''not awarded'' * 2017: Álvaro Ahunchain Ramos, for ''Marionetas'' * 2018: Federico Puig Silva, for ''Y'' * 2019: Ignacio Revello, for ''Manifiesto para unicornios insatisfechos'' * 2020: Alejandra Gregorio Zito, for ''Aquellos lugares donde'' * 2021: María Alejandra Gregorio, for ''Acostarse a la orilla de una rajadura'' * 2022: Federico Puig Silva, for ''El lugar donde nacen las olas'' * 2023: Juan Sebastián Peralta, for ''Luz''

Young Adult and Children's Narrative

* 2014: María Noel Toledo, for ''El enigma de Mona Lisa'' * 2015: Gonzalo Salinas, for ''La niebla'' * 2016: Alicia Alba Cabrera, for ''El club de las no besadas'' * 2017: Rodrigo Castillo, for ''La muela del diablo'' * 2018: Gonzalo Salinas, for ''Las danzas vírgenes'' * 2019: Fernando González Rodríguez, ''La Reina'' * 2020: Alicia Alba Cabrera, for ''En todas las familias nacen parientes'' * 2021: Sofía Aguerre, for ''Adagio'' * 2022: Martín Otheguy, for ''La feria de sueños del conde Miserias'' * 2023: Edgardo Fabián Lucas Silva, for ''El corazón de piedra de la tía Perla''

Comic

* 2014: Gabriel Ciccariello, for ''Sombras, el seudónimo de Arepas'' * 2015: Santiago Latorre, for ''Un viaje soñado'' * 2016 (last award): Alejandro Rodríguez Juele, for ''Regreso a las montañas de la locura''

References

Uruguayan literary awards 2013 establishments in Uruguay Awards established in 2013 {{Uruguay-stub