Javier Ojeda will perform at the IV Estepona City Novel Award ceremony

Singer and songwriter Javier Ojeda will perform at the award ceremony of the 4th City of Estepona Novel Prize, which will take place next Thursday, April 30, at the Auditorio del Mirador del Carmen, at 7:00 PM, as announced today by the Estepona Town Council. Javier Ojeda is one of the most beloved artists from Málaga in our country since he became the lead singer of the legendary band 'Danza Invisible'. An expert in Latin and black music, Ojeda has developed an interesting solo career over the last two decades with albums of covers and original songs, where musical blending and research are fundamental. Admission to the event will be free until full capacity is reached.

The 4th City of Estepona Novel Prize is organized by the Estepona Town Council and the Manuel Alcántara Foundation. The winner of this edition is the Argentine writer Ariel Magnus for his work 'Mentir la verdad. Confessions of a political forger'. The prize includes €25,000 and the publication of the novel by the Pre-Textos publishing house. Interested readers will be able to purchase it that same day at the Mirador del Carmen and in bookstores starting from May 6.

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The work narrates the life of Heinrich Jürges, a young German who joined the Nazi Party and is believed to have worked for Goebbels. Later, he moved to South America, where he joined the Black Front, a derivative of Nazism. As an independent agitator, through forged documents, he generated in 1939 the famous Patagonia plot, which led to the prohibition of Hitler's party activities in Argentina. Back in Europe, he made a living by offering his informant services to the highest bidder.

Mixing real and fictitious sources, Ariel Magnus recreates the autobiography of this obscure swindler, trafficker, and propagandist, whose adventures span four decades and two continents and involve various political and cultural figures such as Perón, Borges, or Kafka, among others. The winning work uses irony, cynicism, and sarcasm to explore the nuances of the press in tumultuous times and the miseries of those who work with sensitive information.

Ariel Magnus will receive the prize at the event on the upcoming 30th and will have a brief discussion with Guillermo Busutil, director of activities at the Alcántara Foundation

Ariel Magnus will receive the prize at the event next Thursday and will have a brief discussion with Guillermo Busutil, director of activities at the Alcántara Foundation. The Argentine writer, who currently resides in Germany, has several works published by different publishers and was even a finalist for the Biblioteca Breve Prize in 2020.

In its decision, the jury, chaired by writer Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, highlighted "the literary quality of an autobiographical fiction against the backdrop of the history of Nazis established in Argentina, in a literary game with Borgesian resonances and of the picaresque novel, which directly connects with current reality through the theme of fake news and information intoxication."