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http://www.excelsior.com.mx/index.php?m=nota&id_nota=736256
Bernardo 'Bef' Fernandez, Mexican illustrator and novelist, is awarded the prize with "Black Ice", ((("Hielo Negro"))) a thriller about drug-related violence
MEXICO CITY, May 12 .- The illustrator and novelist Bernardo Fernández "Bef" won today Mexico Grijalbo Novel Award 2011 for his work Black Ice, considered by the jury "an authentic Mexican thriller that reflects the current problems of the country" immersed in a wave of violence linked to organized crime.
The jury found that the novel had achieved "a merger of the language of the graphic novel, film and literature that makes a work perfectly suited to the postmodern," reads the minutes read today in Mexico City by the editor Andrés Ramírez.
The decision was reached unanimously by the five members, writers Monica Lavin, Eduardo Antonio Parra and Carlos Pascual, and the editors of Random House Mondadori (RHM) Cristóbal Pera and Andrew Ramirez.
The novel tells the story of the beautiful and refined Lizzy Zubiaga, head of the cartel of Constance, and the judicial police Andrea Mijangos, her antagonist, "to be lurking around in circles until they are," Fernandez said in a press conference.
The first is an educated drug dealer, art collector formed in Canada, which represents the sophistication and money, "as one fan Tim Burton crossed with Marilyn Manson," while the second is an agent of justice who wants to hunt the previous amorous revenge.
In the press conference, the Mexican Monica Lavin said she was "excited" by the female characters, particularly Lizzy, who symbolizes the "generation gap" that exists in the leadership of the drug cartels, where hard and flamboyant characters of the past give way to others who have lived with money and were educated abroad.
Eduardo Antonio Parra, who read the novel in one sitting during a stopover at the airport in Los Angeles, said he was so on edge that he almost lost his connection.
"For the first time I read a thriller written by a fully armed Mexican," he said. ...
