Alonso Cueto

Who is Alonso Cueto?

Alonso Cueto Caballero is a Peruvian novelist and playwright. His novel El tigre blanco, published in 1985, was awarded the Premio Wiracocha. He has published regularly and currently writes for the newspaper Peru 21 and is a Professor of Journalism at the Catholic University of Peru. His novel "Grandes Miradas" was adapted into a movie by Francisco Lombardi in 2006. Cueto's novel La Hora Azul/The Blue Hour won the Herralde Prize in 2006. it was published in English in 2012 and was shortlisted for the 2013 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize

In 2007, Cueto also collaborated with the highly acclaimed radio program "Mi Novela Favorita".

His 2007 novel El Susurro de la Mujer Ballena was a runner-up for the prestigious Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa for which he was awarded $50,000.