The Mexican David Toscana, Alfaguara Prize 2026 for his novel ‘The Blind Army’

The Mexican author David Tuscany has been recognized with the XXIX Alfaguara Novel Prize for the work ‘The blind army’ which will hit bookstores on March 26.

The award is endowed with more than 147,000 euros, a sculpture by Martín Chirino and simultaneous publication throughout the Spanish-speaking territory.

The award, which reaches its twenty-ninth edition, has had a jury chaired by the Mexican writer Jorge Volpi, Alfaguara Novel Prize in 2018 for ‘A Criminal Novel’, and also made up of the Argentine writer Agustina Bazterrica; the Mexican writer Brenda Navarro; the scout and cultural programmer Camila Enrich; the journalist and director of Página Dos, Óscar López; and the editorial director of Alfaguara, Pilar Reyes, with voice but no vote.

In this call, 1,140 manuscripts have been received, of which 524 come from Spain, 171 from Argentina, 169 from Mexico, 109 from Colombia, 62 from the United States, 49 from Chile, 34 from Peru and 22 from Uruguay.

In the 2025 edition, the winner of the Alfaguara Novel Prize was the Argentine writer Guillermo Saccomanno with ‘The Wind Will Burn’, while in 2024 it was Sergio del Molino who collected the award for his work ‘The Germans’.