October 27th, 2025 — Fernanda Trías (CRF 2025) has won the 2025 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Literature Prize for her novel El monte de las furias (The Mountain of the Furies) (Literatura Random House). Presented annually at the Guadalajara International Book Fair, the prize honors outstanding literary work written by a woman in Spanish.
The jury unanimously selected Fernanda and El monte de las furias citing it as “a novel rooted in the Latin American narrative tradition, reconfiguring it through an exceptional female point of view full of discoveries and nuances.” They praised the novel for its “lyrical precision and disturbing beauty,” recognizing Fernanda’s ability to fuse myth and corporeality into a work that feels both timeless and urgent. This follows the international success of Mugre rosa (Pink Slime), which envisioned a world undone by environmental collapse, and won the same award in 2021 and was a finalist for a National Book Award in the US.
Set on a desolate mountainside where bodies appear mysteriously in the soil, El monte de las furias transforms landscape into a living, breathing entity—part witness, part accomplice. Through spare, hypnotic prose, Fernanda explores themes of grief, memory, and the porous boundaries between the human and the natural world.
The awards ceremony will take place on Wednesday, December 3rd, during the 39th edition of the Guadalajara International Book Fair. Learn more at FIL.com.
Complimenti, Fernanda!