Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award 2019 winner
4 November 2019
The Wind That Lays Waste by Argentinian writer Selva
Almada has won the Edinburgh International Book Festival's 2019
First Book Award. The novel, which was nominated for the
Argentinian Book of the Year Award when published in 2012, has been
translated by Chris Andrews and was published by Edinburgh-based
Charco Press in English for the first time this year.
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