Rodrigo Blanco Calderón (Caracas, 1981) has been awarded this Thursday, May 30th, the Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Novel Prize for his novel The night (Alfaguara, 2016), a portrait of the city of Caracas after the electric power cuts that occurred in 2010 and that showed the decline of the Venezuelan capital during the Chavismo. The jury has decided to give the award to Blanco Calderón for displaying so many voices in his first novel. "A polyphonic novel, built as a game of Russian dolls (...) a literary artifact built with skill by a narrator who knows how to appreciate the complexity of his native metropolis and the life of its inhabitants", according to the jury at the festival celebrated in Guadalajara (Mexico). The prize has an endowment of $100,000.
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