Gijón, Jul 8 (EFE).- The Argentine writer Claudia Piñeiro is nominated for a second Dashiell Hammett Prize for the crime genre with “El tiempo de las moscas” (Hispánica), a story of courage and friendship that portrays today’s society starring Inés , the character he created for the novel “Yours”.
After having won the Hammett of the Black Week in Gijón in 2021 with “Catedrales”, in which he addressed issues such as abortion, memory and forgiveness, the festival jury has selected his latest work as a finalist for this year’s awards .
In “The Time of the Flies” Piñeiro recovers the character of Inés, but places it in the present moment in which she is released from prison after a long sentence for having killed her ex-husband’s mother and finds herself with a society totally different in which her convictions as a woman assimilated to the patriarchal culture do not fit.
“Upon leaving prison, Inés discovers a world different from the one she had known, in which the women had kicked the board and woke up while she had been asleep in prison,” the author explained this Saturday at the presentation of the book in the thirty-sixth edition of Semana Negra.
Inés had been a traditional housewife and a mother who was not happy with motherhood, who understood the need to be practical and adapt to the new reality, associating herself with the only friend she had in prison, La Manca, in a company of detectives. which also fumigates.
In this work, Piñeiro has given flies a particular symbolism as she is interested in forensic entomology, a science that studies these insects from the perspective of the information that they can contribute to the clarification of a crime.
“Flies are the life that death wants to tell”, stated the writer who, in addition to the Hammett, has won the Clarín, Sor Juan Inés de la Cruz, Pepe Carvalho and Valencia Negra prizes.
Piñeiro competes for the Hammet with “Litio”, by Imanol Caneylada; “The President”, by Alicia Gimenez Bartlett; “Season”, by María Inés Krimer, and “El deer y la sombra”, by Diego Amexeiras.